Residuum vs Remains - What's the difference?
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The residue, remainder or rest of something
(chemistry) The solid material remaining after the liquid in which it was dissolved has been evaporated; a residue.
(fuzzy logic) A binary function from [0,1] × [0,1] to [0,1] which is defined in terms of the t-norm as follows: , where denotes the t-norm function and denotes the supremum.
(legal) The residue of an estate
What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
Historical or archaeological relics.
(senseid)The extant writings of a deceased person.
All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.
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(remain)
Residuum is a related term of remains.
As nouns the difference between residuum and remains
is that residuum is the residue, remainder or rest of something while remains is what is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.As a verb remains is
(remain).residuum
English
Noun
(residua)- The residuum of the minimum t-norm is a function such that
See also
* (fuzzy logic) relative pseudo-complement ----remains
English
(wikipedia remains)Noun
(en-plural noun)- The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.
citation, passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}
Verb
(head)- We'll go ahead, while she remains here.
