residue

(rĕz'ĭ-dū', -dyū')
n.

1. The remainder of something after removal of parts or a part.
2. Matter remaining after completion of an abstractive chemical or physical process, such as evaporation, combustion, distillation, or filtration; residuum.
3. Law. The remainder of a testator's estate after all claims, debts, and bequests are satisfied. Also called residuum.

[Middle English, from Old French residu, from Latin residuum, neuter of residuus, remaining, from residēre, to remain behind. See reside.]

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noun

What remains after a part has been used or subtracted: balance, leavings, leftover, remainder, remains, remnant, rest². See leftover.

n

Definition: leftover part
Antonyms: base, core

IN BRIEF: A remainder or surplus after a part has been separated or otherwise treated.

Luck is the residue of design. — Wesley Branch Rickey (1881-1965)

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1. any of the incorporated amino-acid moieties in a peptide or protein.
2. material that remains after any procedure to remove something.

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A remainder; that which remains after the removal of other substances; in organic chemistry a portion of a molecule that is incorporated into another molecule, e.g. an amino acid residue of a polypeptide. See also unintentional residue.

• r. avoidance — procedures in the handling of chemicals adopted on the farm and in food processing facilities to ensure that human food is not contaminated.
• cannery r. — cannery wastes used as supplementary feed for cattle in feedlots. Tomato and onion wastes have caused poisoning incidents. Damaged materials, especially those infected with fungi, may cause mycotoxicoses.
• chemical food r. — chemicals used in agriculture present a real threat to the saleability of animal products if they are contaminated with chemical residues. The residues are often harmful to human health and are also the target of some very stringent pure foods legislation. Mercury in fish, sulfonamides in pig products, iodine in milk and chlorinated hydrocarbons in beef have been some of the celebrated examples of environmental and human food chain pollution.
• drug r. — see drug residue.
• maximum r. limits — maximum concentrations of individual chemicals, or groups of chemicals, especially metabolites, and including pharmaceutical and industrial chemicals, in commodities or tissues to be used as human or animal feeds, and as defined by the food standard codes of a particular country or state; permissible levels vary with local legislation. Called also MRL.

n

Remainder; that which remains after the removal of other substances.

See words rhyming with "residue."

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - restbo (jur.), rest

Nederlands (Dutch)
overblijfsel

Français (French)
n. - (gén, Chim) résidu, (fig) reste, (Jur) reliquat d'une succession

Deutsch (German)
n. - Rest, Rückstand

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - υπόλοιπο, κατάλοιπο, ίζημα (κν. κατακάθι), (νομ.) υπόλοιπο, υπόλειμμα

Italiano (Italian)
residuo

Português (Portuguese)
n. - resíduo (m)

Русский (Russian)
осадок, остаток, радикал

Español (Spanish)
n. - residuo, resto

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - överskott, rest, (jur) behållning i dödsbo, (kem) residuum

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
残渣, 余数, 剩余

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 殘渣, 餘數, 剩餘

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 잔여, 나머지, 잔여 재산

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 残り, 残余財産, 残留物

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الفضلى, البقيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮משקע, שארית העיזבון, שארית‬

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