2 definitions found From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: residuum noun: something left after other parts have been taken away; "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest"; "he took what he wanted and I got the balance" [syn: {remainder}, {balance}, {residual}, {residue}, {rest}] [also: {residua} (pl)] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Residuum \Re*sid"u*um\ (-?m), noun [L. See {Residue}.] That which is left after any process of separation or purification; that which remains after certain specified deductions are made; residue. ''I think so,'' is the whole residuum . . . after evaporating the prodigious pretensions of the zealot demagogue. --L. Taylor.

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