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▪ I. † residuˈation1 Obs. rare.
[Erroneous for recidivation. Cf. resiliuation.]
Relapse.
1534More Comf. agst. Trib. ii. Wks. 1195/2 Far from occasion geuing of new residuacion into his former sinne.
▪ II. residuˈation2 Math.
[f. residu-al: see -ation.]
(See quot. 1880, and residual n. 1 b.)
1873Salmon Higher Plane Curves (ed. 2) 134 Prof. Sylvester's remarkable theory of residuation. 1880Sylvester in Amer. Jrnl. Math. III. 60 The theory of residuation, in its simplest form,..teaches us that the rule of the older chemistry known by the name of double decomposition, viz. that (a, b), (c, d) = (a, c), (b, d) is applicable to the same symbols regarded as points of a cubic curve. |