vestige /ˈvɛs.tɪd͡ʒ/ noun4 •A mark left on the earth by a foot. •A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present.The result, therefore, of this physical inquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,— no prospect of an end. — 1788 •A vestigial organ; a non-functional organ or body part that was once functional in an evolutionary ancestor.Any person seeing such a condition could not help being frightened at the conditions found, and it seems to me that that fact should lead us to think that the appendix is a vestige or becoming so. — 1904 •The remaining portion of a partially suppressed sideband.[J]ust a trace, or vestige, of the other sideband is included. In the receiver detection circuitry the vestige of the lower sideband is added to the upper sideband. — 2003 formsvestiges
