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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
Etymology
Noun
residuum (plural residuums or residua)
The residue, remainder or rest of something
(chemistry) The solid material remaining after the liquid in which it was dissolved has been evaporated; a residue.
(fuzzy logic) A binary function from [0,1] × [0,1] to [0,1] which is defined in terms of the t-norm as follows: , where denotes the t-norm function and denotes the supremum.
The residuum of the minimum t-norm is a function such that
(legal) The residue of an estate
Synonyms
• (rest of something): lave, remnant; See also remainder
Source: Wiktionary
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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