residue

English

Etymology

From Middle English residue, from Old French residu, from Latin residuum, neuter of residuus (“remaining”), from resideō (“I remain behind”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛzɪduː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛzɪdjuː/

Noun

residue (countable and uncountable, plural residues)

1. Whatever remains after something else has been removed.
2. (chemistry) The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
3. (biochemistry) A molecule that is released from a polymer after bonds between neighbouring monomers are broken, such as an amino acid in a polypeptide chain.
4. (law) Whatever property or effects are left in an estate after payment of all debts, other charges and deduction of what is specifically bequeathed by the testator.
5. (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.
6. (complex analysis) A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.
   • 2001, Publications of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, page 72:

     By taking residues, we can represent this integral in terms of a Jackson integral.

Synonyms

• (whatever remains): lave, remnant; See also Thesaurus:remainder

Derived terms

• day residue
• day's residue
• diresidue
• nonresidue
• quadratic residue
• residual
• residuary
• residue class
• residue field

 

Related terms

• residuum

Translations

whatever remains

• Azerbaijani: qalıq
• Bulgarian: остатък (bg) m (ostatǎk)
• Catalan: residu (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 殘餘／残余 (zh) (cányú)

• Finnish: jäännös (fi), tähde (fi), ylijäämä (fi), jäämä (fi)
• Galician: residuo (gl) m
• German: Überrest (de) m
• Greek: υπόλοιπο (el) n (ypóloipo)
• Hungarian: maradék (hu)
• Indonesian: residu (id)
• Irish: dríodar m, fuílleach m
• Italian: residuo (it) m
• Kapampangan: layak
• Malay: sisa
• Malayalam: അവശിഷ്ടം (ml) (avaśiṣṭaṁ), മിച്ചം (ml) (miccaṁ), ബാക്കി (ml) (bākki), ചണ്ടി (ml) (caṇṭi)
• Maori: toenga, toenga
• Ottoman Turkish: آرتق (artık)
• Portuguese: resíduo (pt) m
• Russian: оста́ток (ru) m (ostátok)
• Spanish: residuo (es) m
• Tày: bạ
• Vietnamese: bã (vi)

(chemistry) substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration

• Catalan: residu (ca) m
• Esperanto: reziduo
• Finnish: jäännös (fi), jäte (fi), jäämä (fi)
• French: résidu (fr)
• Galician: residuo (gl) m
• German: Rückstand (de) m
• Hungarian: üledék (hu)
• Indonesian: residu (id)
• Irish: dríodar m
• Italian: residuo (it) m
• Malay: baki (ms)
• Polish: osad (pl) m
• Portuguese: resíduo (pt) m
• Russian: оса́док (ru) m (osádok), отсто́й (ru) m (otstój)
• Spanish: residuo (es)

(law) property or effects remaining in an estate after deduction of debts, charges and bequests

• Finnish: kuolinpesän jakamaton nettovarallisuus
• German: Nachlass (de) m
• Irish: fuílleach m

(mathematics) form of complex number

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 留數／留数 (zh) (liúshù)

• Finnish: residy
• German: Residuum n
• Portuguese: resíduo (pt) m
• Russian: вы́чет (ru) m (výčet)
• Swedish: residy (sv) c

Anagrams

• diuerse, diurese, ureides

Italian

Adjective

residue f pl

1. feminine plural of residuo

Anagrams

• suderei

Latin

Adjective

residue

1. vocative masculine singular of residuus