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That which persists or remains following the removal or elimination of other elements.countableuncountable
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The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.countableuncountable
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A molecule that is released from a polymer after bonds between neighbouring monomers are broken, such as an amino acid in a polypeptide chain.countableuncountable
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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.countableuncountable
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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.countableuncountable
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A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.countableuncountable
- By taking residues, we can represent this integral in terms of a Jackson integral.
syn. lave · remnant