Residuum

Word RESIDUUM
Character 8
Hyphenation re sid u um
Pronunciations /ɹɛˈzɪ.dju.ʌm/

Definitions and meanings of "Residuum"

What do we mean by residuum?

Something remaining after removal of a part; a residue. noun

That which is left after any process; that which remains; a residue. noun

Specifically, in late, that part of an estate which is left after the payment of charges, debts, and particular bequests; more strictly, the part so left which is effectively disposed of by a residuary clause. noun

In geology, the insoluble remainder left behind during processes of rock-weathering by the removal of the soluble portion. noun

That which is left after any process of separation or purification; that which remains after certain specified deductions are made; residue. noun

The solid material remaining after the liquid in which it was dissolved has been evaporated; a residue. noun

Something left after other parts have been taken away noun

The residue, remainder or rest of something

The solid material remaining after the liquid in which it was dissolved has been evaporated; a residue.

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.

The residue of an estate

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The word "residuum" in example sentences

The residuum is worth the market value of the item (not one-fifth the value). ❋ Unknown (2009)

In 4e, all you need to do is to remove the residuum from the belly, which you may or may not have removed already (I have). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Until those appear, in essance, residuum is just a special kind of very light gold pieces you can exchange for magical effects away from a store. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Also, for some rituals (magic item creation I assume) you have to use residuum, which is the magic dust you get from disenchanting other magic items. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As a consequence, the universal epoché does not serve to establish what it was solely designed to show, namely the residuum thesis. ❋ Beyer, Christian (2007)

It has been said, and it is often repeated, that if you strip a Spaniard of his virtues, the residuum will be a Portuguese. ❋ L. Higgin (N/A)

England wanted the Philippines, he would think it what he would term a residuum of normalcy to give them away. ❋ Stephen Leacock (1906)

In North Africa the residuum was a remarkable propensity to visions, holy dreams, and the like. ❋ Adolph Harnack (1890)

But with a sense of more human dutifulness, Perry recalled his residuum of perception. ❋ George Alfred Townsend (1877)

Spiritualising will turn out to be very like evaporating, the residuum will be a miserably unsatisfactory something, near akin to nothing, and certainly incapable either of firing its disciples with a desire to spread their faith, if we may call it so by courtesy, or of drawing men to itself. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

Yet the uniformity of our handwriting, and the manner in which we almost invariably adhere to one method of forming the same character, would seem to suggest that during the momentary formation of each letter our memories must revert (with an intensity too rapid for our perception) to many if not to all the occasions on which we have ever written the same letter previously -- the memory of these occasions dwelling in our minds as what has been called a residuum -- an unconsciously struck balance or average of them all -- a fused mass of individual reminiscences of which no trace can be found in our consciousness, and of which the only effect would seem to lie in the gradual changes of handwriting which are perceptible in most people till they have reached middle-age, and sometimes even later. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)

By contrast, almost half of the simple distillation yield from Saudi Arabia's Arabian Light, the historical benchmark crude, is a heavy residue ( "residuum") that must be reprocessed or sold at a discount to crude oil. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The 'Hell-Hole' is to be explained as being operated by the Plooran 'residuum' which every Lensman knows all about and which he will never forget. ❋ Smith, E. E. (1954)

And this transitional something, this restless moral or immoral force which must work out its natural results somehow and somewhere, and that in embodied form projects into future being a residuum which is known as Kharma. ❋ Frank F. Ellinwood (N/A)

The "residuum" is the element which cannot be fitted into any such hypothesis. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

We have many hideous pictures of the East-end drinking-bars, and much reproachful pity is expended on the "residuum;" but the evil that is eating at the very heart of the nation, the evil that is destroying our once noble middle-class, finds no assailant and no chronicler. ❋ James Runciman (1871)

While the rest argued pro and con and the air was filled with phrases, — "psychic phenomena," "self-hypnotism," "residuum of unexplained truth," and "spiritism," — she was reviving mentally the girlhood pictures she had conjured of this soldier-father she had never seen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mr.A. C. Pigou has said that the aged poor, and the residuum which compose the "submerged tenth," constitute 71 per cent, of the population of London. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But I never felt like I needed to houserule the classes and the magic system and the treasure system and the monsters and the combat system … Once you “house rule” away roles and treasure parcels and residuum and minis and all the “balance uber alles” stuff – what exactly are you left with? ❋ Unknown (2009)

How, exactly, is verismilitude served by “if the players really cherish the item, they get 100% of the residuum, but if they were just going to sell it anyway, they only get 20%”? ❋ Unknown (2009)

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