residue

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The remainder of something after removal of parts or a part.
2. n. Matter remaining after completion of an abstractive chemical or physical process, such as evaporation, combustion, distillation, or filtration; residuum.
3. n. Law The remainder of a testator's estate after all claims, debts, and bequests are satisfied. Also called residuum.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. That which remains after a part is taken, separated, removed, or dealt with in some other way; what is left over; remainder; the rest.
2. n. In law:
3. n. The residuum of a testator's estate after payment of debts and legacies.
4. n. That which remains of a testator's estate after payment of debts and particular legacies, and is undisposed of except it may be by a general clause or residuary legacy.
5. n. In the theory of numbers, the remainder after division, especially after division by a fixed modulus; in the integral calculus, the integral of a monodromic function taken round a pole or poles: same as residual, 2.
6. n. Synonyms Rest, etc. See remainder.

Wiktionary

1. n. Whatever remains after something else has been removed.
2. n. The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
3. n. 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.
4. n. A form of complex number.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. That which remains after a part is taken, separated, removed, or designated; remnant; remainder.
2. n. That part of a testeator's estate wwhich is not disposed of in his will by particular and special legacies and devises, and which remains after payment of debts and legacies.
3. n. That which remains of a molecule after the removal of a portion of its constituents; hence, an atom or group regarded as a portion of a molecule; a moiety or group; -- used as nearly equivalent to radical, but in a more general sense.
4. n. Any positive or negative number that differs from a given number by a multiple of a given modulus.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. something left after other parts have been taken away
2. n. matter that remains after something has been removed