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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Residuum \Re*sid"u*um\ (-?m), n. [L. See {Residue}.]
That which is left after any process of separation or
purification; that which remains after certain specified
deductions are made residue.
``I think so,'' is the whole residuum . . . after
evaporating the prodigious pretensions of the zealot
demagogue. --L. Taylor.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
residuum
n : something left after other parts have been taken away
"there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest" [syn:
{remainder}, {residual}, {residue}, {rest}]
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