1
a
: a usually small part, member, or trace remaining
b
: a small surviving group
—often used in plural
2
: an unsold or unused end of piece goods
: still remaining
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Noun
Remnants go on sale next week.
sailed home with just a remnant of the colony's original population aboard
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Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
By developing a new theoretical relation describing just how compact neutron stars — which are the remnants of massive stars that have gone supernova — can get, researchers have found a way to test the properties of nuclear physics under very extreme conditions.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2025
In a surprising discovery, astronomers have found an enormous, shell-like structure called a nova super-remnant (NSR) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a galaxy located approximately 160,000 light-years from Earth.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2025
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Noun
In remembrance, Collins carved a sliver of the Jackson pediment into tiny rose petals and scattered them around the remnant.
—Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
By developing a new theoretical relation describing just how compact neutron stars — which are the remnants of massive stars that have gone supernova — can get, researchers have found a way to test the properties of nuclear physics under very extreme conditions.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
Sources said at the time that the shooting was believed to be linked to a remnant cell of the Arellano Félix Organization, one of the drug groups fighting for control of Baja California.
—Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2025
In a surprising discovery, astronomers have found an enormous, shell-like structure called a nova super-remnant (NSR) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a galaxy located approximately 160,000 light-years from Earth.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2025
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“Remnant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/remnant. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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