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Filtration vs Residue - What's the difference?

filtration | residue |

As nouns the difference between filtration and residue

is that filtration is the act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it while residue is whatever remains after something else has been removed.

filtration

English

(filtration)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.

    • Anagrams

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    residue

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Whatever remains after something else has been removed.
  • (chemistry) The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
  • (legal) 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.
  • (mathematics) A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.

    • Derived terms

    * nonresidue * quadratic residue * residual * residuary

    Related terms

    * residuum

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