That which persists or remains following the removal or elimination of other elements.
2
The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
3
A molecule that is released from a polymer after bonds between neighbouring monomers are broken, such as an amino acid in a polypeptide chain.
4
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.
5
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.
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noun — something left after other parts have been taken away