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residuum

/ɹɛˈzɪ.dju.ʌm/ · noun

Meaning

  1. The residue, remainder or rest of something
  2. The solid material remaining after the liquid in which it was dissolved has been evaporated; a residue.
  3. A binary function from [0,1] × [0,1] to [0,1] which is defined in terms of the t-norm as follows: x \rightarrow y = \sup \{ z | z * x \leqslant y\}, where * denotes the t-norm function and \sup denotes the supremum.
  4. The residue of an estate

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