remnant

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I wonder that the remnant of the family does not care to retain it I hear the remnant is all but gone," his grandson informed him, with sober lips but dancing eyes.

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  1. noun Something left over; a remainder.
  2. noun A piece of fabric remaining after the rest has been used or sold.
  3. noun A surviving trace or vestige: a remnant of his past glory.

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  • We demonstrate that dipolar magnetic fields supplied on small SN -- remnant scales, can be amplified exponentially by the CR -- driven dynamo to the present equipartition values, and transformed simultaneously to large galactic -- scales by an inverse cascade promoted by resistive processes. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The accelerated protons and ions which escape from the remnant are known as "cosmic rays", and continually bombard the Earth's atmosphere. —  Scientific Frontline by SFL ORG Educational News Network
  • That sterile planet, whose last human remnant is the remorse that Verna chooses to hear in the train's mechanical air horn, is where all of Raymond's characters, in their increasing remoteness from each other, may be ultimately bound. —  The New York Review of Books
  • (The closest supernova remnant is Vela, about 800 light years away.) —  Brad Ideas - Comments
  • Scientists studying the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant are now working with 'light echoes' - hot spots in silicate dust near the remnant that are the result of a short pulse of ultraviolet radiation and X-rays that occurred with the supernova. —  Centauri Dreams
 

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remain ·  fragment ·  trace ·  relic ·  vestige ·  scrap ·  bit ·  glimpse ·  portion ·  ruin ·  remainder ·  midst

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remnant:   remnants
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  1. Middle English remanant, remnant, from Old French remanant, from present participle of remaindre, to remain; see remain.

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  1. Contr. from remenant, remanent, from Middle English remenant, remenaunt, from Old French remenant, remenaunt, remainder: see remanent.
 

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/ˈrɛmnənt/
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