Definition of residues:
(n) :
That which persists or remains following the removal or elimination of other elements.
(n) :
(chemistry) The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
(n) :
(law) 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.
(n) :
(modular arithmetic) 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.
(n) :
(biochemistry) A molecule that is released from a polymer after bonds between neighbouring monomers are broken, such as an amino acid in a polypeptide chain.
(n) :
(complex analysis) A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.