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

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley