residuum Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun something left after other parts have been taken away
    residue; residual; rest; balance; remainder.
    • there was no remainder
    • he threw away the rest
    • he took what he wanted and I got the balance

WordNet

Re*sid"u*um noun
Etymology
L. See Residue.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913