different between residue vs residueless

English

Etymology

From Middle English residue, from Old French residu, from Latin residuum, neuter of residuus (“remaining”), from reside? (“I remain behind”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???z?du?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???z?dju?/

Noun

residue (countable and uncountable, plural residues)

1. Whatever remains after something else has been removed.
2. (chemistry) The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
3. (biochemistry) A molecule that is released from a polymer after bonds between neighbouring monomers are broken, such as an amino acid in a polypeptide chain.
4. (law) Whatever property or effects are left in an estate after payment of all debts, other charges and deduction of what is specifically bequeathed by the testator.
5. (mathematics) A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.

Synonyms

• (whatever remains): lave, remnant; See also Thesaurus:remainder

Derived terms

Related terms

• residuum

Translations

Anagrams

• diuerse, diurese, ureides

Italian

Adjective

residue f pl

1. feminine plural of residuo

Anagrams

• suderei

Latin

Adjective

residue

1. vocative masculine singular of residuus

English

Etymology

residue +? -less

Adjective

residueless (comparative more residueless, superlative most residueless)

1. Leaving no residue or lasting mark.
   • 1908, Paul Dahlke, Buddhist Essays, page 309-310:

     To his pointed question: "Where does the residueless, total annihilation of the four elements take place?" he received the following answer. "Go, O monk, and put your question to the Exalted One. As the Exalted One shall explain it, so believe."

   • 1977, Lászlo Jakucs, Morphogenetics of Karst Regions: Variants of Karst Evolution, page 78:

     In general, any monomineralic rock deposited from aqueous solution is capable of total, residueless dissolution in water.

   • 2008, Alessandro Ferrara, The Force of the Example: Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment, chapter 1, page 18:

     If we assume that, in a philosophical context where the human subject is supposed to be intersubjectively constituted by web of relations that necessarily have to have a culturally local anchoring, principles and laws cannot do the old trick of allowing the residueless subsumption of all particulars, as if culture and social relations of recognition were just a colorful addition to a subject whose making is best accounted for in naturalistic or transcendental terms, […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:residueless.

Synonyms

• traceless