RESIDUAL

residual, residuary

(adjective) relating to or indicating a remainder; “residual quantity”

residual

(noun) (often plural) a payment that is made to a performer or writer or director of a television show or commercial that is paid for every repeat showing; “he could retire on his residuals”

remainder, balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest

(noun) something left after other parts have been taken away; “there was no remainder”; “he threw away the rest”; “he took what he wanted and I got the balance”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

residual (not comparable)

Of, relating to, or remaining as a residue; left over.

Synonyms

• residuary

Noun

residual (plural residuals)

A remainder left over at the end of some process.

(in the plural) Payments made to performers, writers and directors when a recorded broadcast is repeated.

(statistics) the difference between the observed value and the estimated value of the quantity of interest

(paranormal) A spiritual presence left behind in a place as a result of a person's death or some other significant event.

Source: Wiktionary

Re*sid"u*al (r-zd"-al), a. Etym: [See Residue.]

Definition: Pertaining to a residue; remaining after a part is taken. Residual air (Physiol.), that portion of air contained in the lungs which can not be expelled even by the most violent expiratory effort. It amounts to from 75 to 100 cubic inches. Cf. Supplemental air, under Supplemental.

– Residual error. (Mensuration) See Error, 6 (b).

– Residual figure (Geom.), the figure which remains after a less figure has been taken from a greater one.

– Residual magnetism (Physics), remanent magnetism. See under Remanent.

– Residual product, a by product, as cotton waste from a cotton mill, coke and coal tar from gas works, etc.

– Residual quantity (Alg.), a binomial quantity the two parts of which are connected by the negative sign, as a-b.

– Residual root (Alg.), the root of a residual quantity, as sq. root(a-b).

Re*sid"u*al, n. (Math.) (a) The difference of the results obtained by observation, and by computation from a formula. (b) The difference between the mean of several observations and any one of them.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition