RESIDUA

RESIDUUM

remainder, balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest

(noun) something left after other parts have been taken away; “there was no remainder”; “he threw away the rest”; “he took what he wanted and I got the balance”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

residua

plural of residuum

Anagrams

• Rideaus, aurides, rideaus

Source: Wiktionary


RESIDUUM

Re*sid"u*um (-m), n. Etym: [L. See Residue.]

Definition: That which is left after any process of separation or purification; that which remains after certain specified deductions are made; residue. "I think so," is the whole residuum . . . after evaporating the prodigious pretensions of the zealot demagogue. L. Taylor.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

12 June 2025

RAREFACTION

(noun) a decrease in the density of something; “a sound wave causes periodic rarefactions in its medium”


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According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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