Usually means: Leftovers from a chemical reaction.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. residues: Merriam-Webster
  2. residues: Collins English Dictionary
  3. residues: Vocabulary.com
  4. Residues, residues: Wordnik
  5. residues: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. residues: Wiktionary
  7. residues: Dictionary.com
  8. residues: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Residues: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Residues: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. residues: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Residues: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Residues: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. residues: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Residues: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. residues, residues: Prime

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Definitions from Wiktionary (residue)

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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