Usually means: Remnant left after something's removal.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word residue:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. residue: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. residue: Merriam-Webster
  3. residue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. residue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. residue: Collins English Dictionary
  6. residue: Vocabulary.com
  7. Residue, residue: Wordnik
  8. residue: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. residue: Wiktionary
  10. residue: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. residue: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. residue: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. residue: Dictionary.com
  14. residue: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. residue: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Residue (TV series), Residue (amino acid), Residue (biochemistry), Residue (chemistry), Residue (complex analysis), Residue (mathematics), Residue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Residue: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. residue: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. residue: Rhymezone
  20. residue: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. residue: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. residue: FreeDictionary.org
  23. residue: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. residue: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Residue: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. residue: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. residue: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. residue: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. residue: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. residue: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Residue: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. RESIDUE, RESIDUE, RESIDUE: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Residue: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. residue: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. residue: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Whatever remains after something else has been removed.
noun:  (chemistry) The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (modular arithmetic) A representative element of an equivalence class modulo some base, conventionally in the half-open interval from zero to the base; the nonnegative remainder after dividing a number by a base.
noun:  (complex analysis) 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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