residueless

comparative more residueless · superlative most residueless

1. Leaving no residue or lasting mark.

   In general, any monomineralic rock deposited from aqueous solution is capable of total, residueless dissolution in water.

   1977, Lászlo Jakucs, Morphogenetics of Karst Regions: Variants of Karst Evolution, page 78

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   To his pointed question: "Where does the residueless, total annihilation of the four elements take place?" he received the following answer. "Go, O monk, and put your question to the Exalted One. As the Exalted One shall explain it, so believe."

   1908, Paul Dahlke, Buddhist Essays, pages 309–310

   If we assume that, in a philosophical context where the human subject is supposed to be intersubjectively constituted by web of relations that necessarily have to have a culturally local anchoring, principles and laws cannot do the old trick of allowing the residueless subsumption of all particulars, as if culture and social relations of recognition were just a colorful addition to a subject whose making is best accounted for in naturalistic or transcendental terms, […]

   2008, Alessandro Ferrara, chapter 1, in The Force of the Example: Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment, page 18

   Synonyms: traceless