Associations to the word «Residuum»

Wiktionary

RESIDUUM, noun. The residue, remainder or rest of something
RESIDUUM, noun. (chemistry) The solid material remaining after the liquid in which it was dissolved has been evaporated; a residue.
RESIDUUM, noun. (fuzzy logic) A binary function from [0,1] × [0,1] to [0,1] which is defined in terms of the t-norm as follows: \( x \rightarrow y = \sup \{ z | z * x \leqslant y\}\), where \(*\) denotes the t-norm function and \(\sup\) denotes the supremum.
RESIDUUM, noun. (legal) The residue of an estate

Dictionary definition

RESIDUUM, 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".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope