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Residuum vs Remains - What's the difference?

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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 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: x \rightarrow y = \sup \{ z , z * x \leqslant y\}, where * denotes the t-norm function and \sup denotes the supremum.
  • The residuum of the minimum t-norm is a function \rightarrow such that x \rightarrow y = \begin{cases} y, & \text{if } x > y \\ 1, & \text{if } x \leqslant y .\end{cases}
  • (legal) The residue of an estate
  • See also

    * (fuzzy logic) relative pseudo-complement ----

    remains

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
  • The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.
  • Historical or archaeological relics.
  • (senseid)The extant writings of a deceased person.
  • All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword 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.}}
  • (rare)  .
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (remain)
  • We'll go ahead, while she remains here.