FromMiddle Englishresidue, fromOld Frenchresidu, fromLatinresiduum, neuter ofresiduus(“remaining”), fromresideō(“I remain behind”).Doublet ofresiduum.
residue (countable anduncountable,pluralresidues)
- Whateverremains after something else has beenremoved.
- (chemistry) Thesubstance that remains afterevaporation,distillation,filtration or any similar process.
- (biochemistry) Amolecule that is released from apolymer afterbonds between neighbouringmonomers are broken, such as anamino acid in apolypeptide chain.
- (law) Whateverproperty oreffects are left in anestate after payment of all debts, other charges and deduction of what is specificallybequeathed by thetestator.
- (modular arithmetic) A representative element of an equivalence class modulo some base, conventionally in the half-open interval from zero to the base; the nonnegative remainder after dividing a number by a base.
- (complex analysis) A form ofcomplex number,proportional to thecontour integral of ameromorphicfunction along apath enclosing one of itssingularities.
2001,Publications of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, page72:By takingresidues, we can represent this integral in terms of a Jackson integral.
(chemistry) substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration
(law) property or effects remaining in an estate after deduction of debts, charges and bequests
(mathematics) form of complex number
residue f pl
- feminineplural ofresiduo
residue
- vocativemasculinesingular ofresiduus
