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residuum
[ri-zij-oo-uhm]
noun
plural
residuathe residue, remainder, or rest of something.
Chemistry.Also a quantity or body of matter remaining after evaporation, combustion, distillation, etc.
any residual product.
Law.the residue of an estate.
residuum
/ ɪˈɪʊə /
noun
a more formal word for residue
Example Sentences
“It feels like a publicity stunt, aimed at sending a message worldwide that the French government takes the ‘unclaimed’ works, the apparent residua from the Second World War, seriously.”
The statement is quite definitive, calling him “completely recovered, there is not any residuum remained.”
The bed looked like the residuum of a lost weekend, yetit also intimated that the bed’s occupant felt herself to be lost, too.
Immunological memory is the residuum of a successful immune response that in the B cell lineage comprises long-lived plasma cells and long-lived memory B cells.
Among his circle of correspondents are those who advocate "a war that was longer and might act as a purgative, sweeping away what was rotten, reducing the number of fertile males among theresiduum."
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