Crossword clues for residual
residual
- Leftover — used rail (anag)
- TV royalty
- Something left after other parts have been taken away
- (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
- TV performer's reward for reruns
- What remains after the rest has been removed
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Residual \Re*sid"u*al\ (r?-z?d"?-al),
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[See Residue.] 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-
Residual root (Alg.), the root of a residual quantity, as [root](a-b).
Residual \Re*sid"u*al\, n. (Math.)
The difference of the results obtained by observation, and by computation from a formula.
The difference between the mean of several observations and any one of them.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Of, relating to, or remaining as a residue; left over. n. 1 A remainder left over at the end of some process. 2 (context in the plural English) payments made to performers, writers and directors when a recorded broadcast is repeated.
WordNet
adj. relating to or indicating a remainder; "residual quantity" [syn: residuary]
n. 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" [syn: remainder, balance, residue, residuum, rest]
(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"
Wikipedia
A residual is a payment made to the creator of performance art (or the performer in the work) for subsequent showings or screenings of the (usually filmed) work. A typical use is in the payment of residuals for television reruns. The word is often used in the plural form. Besides members of SAG-AFTRA, members of unions that work behind the camera (such as members of the Directors Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America) receive residuals as well.
Loosely speaking, a residual is the error in a result. To be precise, suppose we want to find x such that
f(x) = b.Given an approximation x of x, the residual is
b − f(x)whereas the error is
x − xIf we do not know x exactly, we cannot compute the error but we can compute the residual.
A residual is generally a quantity left over at the end of a process. It may refer to:
In business:
- Residual (entertainment industry), in business, one of an ongoing stream of payments for the completion of past achievements
- Residuals, in business: profits that shareholders, partners or other owners are entitled to, after debtors are covered
- Residual, in bankruptcy of insolvent businesses: any money that is left after all assets are sold and all creditors paid, to be divided among residual claimants
- Residual (or balloon), in finance, a lump sum owed to the financier at the end of a loan's term, expressed either as a dollar value or a percentage of the amount borrowed.
In mathematics, statistics and econometrics, residual may refer to:
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Errors and residuals in statistics
- Studentized residual
- Residual time, in the theory of renewal processes
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Residual (numerical analysis)
- Minimal residual method
- Generalized minimal residual method
- Residual set, the complement of a meager set
- Residual property (mathematics), a concept in group theory
- Residually finite group, a specific residual property
- The residual function attached to a residuated mapping
- Residue (complex analysis)
- Solow residual, in economics
Usage examples of "residual".
ARPA guaranteed a minimum residual radioactivity and the proper shape of the crater in which the antenna subsequently would be placed.
But where pollutants from humanplayer stay in pool, use chlorine donor to obtain efficient disinfectant residual: Sodium Hypochlorite dispensed via automatic dosing pump.
Chances are we would retain a residual naval and air presence in Bahrain and Qatar, which are much less problematic because the people generally welcome U.
Then she lightly touches the tip of her tongue between thumb and forefinger, as though to pluck off a bit of tobacco, a residual gesture from some earlier time when she smoked unfiltered cigarettes.
The morning sun, through the smog and residual aeroplankton, cast an amber glow about him.
Chances are we would retain a residual naval and air presence in Bahrain and Qatar, which are much less problematic because the people generally welcome U.
But any residual doubt Calli had as to the identity of the male that rode in the lead was removed by the respectful, almost reverent way the group was received.
Was it merely spite at some kind of residual Catharism that led to this crucial trial, or was it a symptom of the fear that Languedocian women instilled in the sex-obsessed Inquisitors?
In June, when native Milwaukeeans were digging themselves out of their six-month winter hibernationand residual cabin feverthe city cut loose with fireworks.
Historically, this tradition traces to the fact that the royal prerogative was residual power, that the monarch was first on the ground, that the other powers of government were off-shoots from monarchical power.
If I do not use enough, the subcortex will retain vague residual images, which under the influence of external stimuli might one day fuse to form specific memories.
The longer he was in the Guild, the more he understood that he and perhaps Kinowin were among the very few Whites who could sense residual chaos.
Hindu and Buddhist contemplatives, on the contrary, claim that even the most sublime contemplative states may be sustained for hours or even days on end and their residual effects may be permanent.
Even those creatures closest to the center of the area between the arms felt the residual heat, and on that shimmering air was brought the tingles of promised power, the itchy anxiety to go out and kill.
Above his head the conveyor belt carrying the gravel ran smoothly, but the residual heat from the driers made it unbearably hot.