residues
- 1Plural of residue.
Chemists analyzed the residues found at the bottom of the flask.
Pesticide residues can linger on unwashed fruit for several days.
Note
A regular plural that matters because the singular can also be a mass noun: residue left in a pan needs no -s, but separate kinds or traces are counted as residues. Technical fields lean on the counted form. Biochemists number the amino-acid residues in a polypeptide chain, number theorists list the residues of integers modulo a base, and complex analysts compute the residues of a function at each of its singularities.
residues is a form of residue
residue, noun: The part that is left behind once something else has been taken away or used up. Full entry
- Forms
- residueresidues plural
- Spelling
- residue → residues: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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