RESIDUE - Meaning and Pronunciation

How to pronounce residue?

This video provides examples of American English pronunciations of residue by male and female speakers.
In addition, it explains the meaning of residue through a dictionary definition and several visual examples.

IPA Transcription of residue is /rˈɛzəd.u/.

Definition of residue according to Wiktionary:
residue is a noun

As a noun residue can mean:
1. Whatever remains after something else has been removed.
2. The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
3. A molecule that is released from a polymer after bonds between neighbouring monomers are broken, such as an amino acid in a polypeptide chain.
4. 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.
5. A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.

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