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What does residue mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word residue? Here's what it means.

Noun
  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.
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Since the officers opened the windows a few minutes after the smoke bomb went off, I don't expect to find much residue upstairs.
In the US a baroque webwork of agencies shares responsibilities for determining safe levels of chemical residue in and on food.
The Ministry of Environment is concerned with wood residue such as bark, sawdust, shavings, woodchips and offcuts generated by sawmills.
The supernatant was kept in stock whereas the residue was sequentially extracted three times.
Who wants to drink a shake that is tasteless, or one that leaves a chalky residue with a bitter aftertaste in your mouth?
An acetyl group was attached to residue 22 to mimic the preceding peptide bond and the C-terminal carboxylate was protonated.

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