decrement vs residuum

decrement

noun
  • A small quantity removed or lost. One of a series of regular subtractions. 

verb
  • To decrease a value by a basic quantity unit. 

residuum

noun
  • The residue, remainder or rest of something. 

  • The residue of an estate. 

  • The solid material remaining after the liquid in which it was dissolved has been evaporated; a residue. 

  • A binary function from [0,1] × [0,1] to [0,1] which is defined in terms of the t-norm as follows: x→y= sup z|z*x⩽y, where * denotes the t-norm function and sup denotes the supremum. 

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