A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.
Scarcity; a lack or short supply.
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.
Whatever remains after something else has been removed.
A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.
The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.