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Pronunciation: [ɹɪsˈɪdjuːəm] (IPA)

The term "residuum" refers to a substance that remains after a process or reaction has taken place. Some synonyms for this word include "residue," "remnant," "remainder," "leftover," and "vestige." Residue is a common term and refers to the material left behind after a process is complete. Remnant and remainder refer to what is left over after a larger quantity has been used or removed. Leftover is similar to residue but is more often used to refer to food. Vestige on the other hand, refers to a small remaining trace of something. All of these synonyms can be used interchangeably with residuum and add variety to writing and speaking.

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The word 'residuum' refers to the remaining part of something after a process has taken place. The antonyms for this word would be components or ingredients, which refer to the individual parts that make up a whole. Another antonym for residuum could be the word output, which denotes the end result or product that is produced after a process has been completed. Additionally, antonyms to residuum could include the terms fraction, portion, and segment, all of which indicate a division or separation of a whole object or substance into smaller parts. Overall, the antonyms for residuum emphasize the various components or parts that create a whole, rather than the residual part that remains after a process has been completed.

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Usage examples for Residuum

Vereker failed for the moment to grasp the degree of his own astonishment, and used the residuum of his previous calmness to say: "I remember.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
The residuum was next digested in one pint of water, filtered, and again evaporated to six ounces.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell
2nd: what is even more important, a distinction ought to be made between the industrious poor and that residuum of confirmed failures for whom the stoneyard test is really intended, and the former ought not to be made to feel themselves any way degraded in their work, their small remuneration being trusted to act as a sufficient preventive against their permanent dependence on the public for employment.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae

Famous quotes with Residuum

  • Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
    James A. Baldwin
  • Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
    Albert J. Nock
  • The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.
    William Howard Taft
  • Studied in the dry light of conservative Christian anarchy, Russia became luminous like the salt of radium; but with a negative luminosity as though she were a substance whose energies had been sucked out — an inert residuum — with movement of pure inertia. From the car window one seemed to float past undulations of nomad life — herders deserted by their leaders and herds — wandering waves stopped in their wanderings — waiting for their winds or warriors to return and lead them westward; tribes that had camped, like Khirgis, for the season, and had lost the means of motion without acquiring the habit of permanence. They waited and suffered. As they stood they were out of place, and could never have been normal. Their country acted as a sink of energy like the Caspian Sea, and its surface kept the uniformity of ice and snow. One Russian peasant kissing an ikon on a saint's day, in the Kremlin, served for a hundred million. The student had no need to study Wallace, or re-read Tolstoy or Tourguenieff or Dostoiewski to refresh his memory of the most poignant analysis of human inertia ever put in words; Gorky was more than enough: Kropotkine answered every purpose.
    Henry Adams
  • He must be a born leader or misleader of men, or must have been sent into the world unfurnished with that modulating and restraining balance-wheel which we call a sense of humor, who, in old age, has as strong a confidence in his opinions and in the necessity of bringing the universe into conformity with them as he had in youth. In a world the very condition of whose being is that it should be in perpetual flux, where all seems mirage, and the one abiding thing is the effort to distinguish realities from appearances, the elderly man must be indeed of a singularly tough and valid fibre who is certain that he has any clarified residuum of experience, any assured verdict of reflection, that deserves to be called an opinion, or who, even if he had, feels that he is justified in holding mankind by the button while he is expounding it.
    James Russell Lowell

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