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).
Usage examples of "residual air".
Farr, trembling, had his arms wrapped around himself, and his mouth was wide as he strained at the residual Air.
Only Hilary Bond, with her residual air of command, remained aloof from it all.
And with every thirty-three feet another fifteen pounds of water pressure forced the hull, rushed into tiny pockets of residual air and crushed them like grapes.
When he regained his calm and had picked up the candle, he realized that in touching the lung he had forced out the residual air.
The door opened quietly, without the pneumatic hiss or any other appreciable sound that could be heard or detected over the residual air conditioning of the building.
He had himself crushed most of Japan's residual air strength in the Formosa operation.