home/glossary/Residue

Residue

nounid 3867·updated May 12, 2026
candidate

Data left in storage after information-processing operations are complete, but before degaussing or overwriting has taken place.

polysemous

Classifications

Entity Type

Data0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

Sensitivity

75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

synonym
residual
plural
Residues
possessive
Residue's
pluralpossessive
Residues'

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
§1
Data left in storage after information-processing operations are complete, but before degaussing or overwriting has taken place.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
§1
Data left in storage after information-processing operations are complete, but before degaussing or overwriting has taken place.
Wordset Dictionary2 sensesview framework →
§1
something left after other parts have been taken away
§2
matter that remains after something has been removed

Outgoing relationships

No outgoing triples
This term is not the subject of any RDF-style relationship yet.

Incoming relationships

No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.