What is the meaning of Residue?

Whatever remains after something else has been removed.

The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.

A molecule that is released from a polymer after bonds between neighbouring monomers are broken, such as an amino acid in a polypeptide chain.

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.

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.

A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.

feminine plural of residuo

vocative masculine singular of residuus

Source: wiktionary.org