Residual

Definitions: Residual

Residual

Adjective

1. Relating to or indicating a remainder; "residual quantity".

Noun

1. Something left after other parts have been taken away; "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest".

2. (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".

Date "residual" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Aerospace	In celestial mechanics and trajectory analysis, the deviation between an observed and a computed value, usually in the sense observed minus computed. (references)
Biology & Biotechnology	The difference between a predictand and an estimate obtained by applying a given function to the data set. The residuals represent the noise of the system and any signal not accounted for by the functional relationship. Source: European Union. (references)
Environment	Amount of a pollutant remaining in the environment after a natural or technological process has taken place; e.g., the sludge remaining after initial wastewater treatment, or particulates remaining in air after it passes through a scrubbing or other process. (references)
	Waste left after a material has been used. Source: European Union. (references)
Geological	The difference between the measured and predicted values of some quantity. (references)
Mining	A. Characteristic of, pertaining to, or consisting of residuum; remaining essentially in place after all but the least soluble constituents have been removed. b. Standing, as a remnant of a formerly greater mass of rock or area of land, above a surrounding area that has been generally planed; said ofsome rocks, hills, mesas, and groups of such features. (references)
Statistics	A general term for a quantity remaining after some other quantity has been subtracted, as may occur in a variety of contexts. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
RELP	English	Residual excited linear predicting coding	Post & Telecom
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Residual

Synonyms: residuary (adj), remainder (n), residue (n), residuum (n), rest (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Remainder	Adjective:remaining, left; left behind left over; residual, residuary; over, odd; unconsumed, sedimentary; surviving; net; exceeding, over and above; outlying, outstanding; cast off; superfluous; (redundant).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Residual

English words defined with "residual": least squares ♦ Mother liquor ♦ Remanent, Remanent magnetism, Residual air, residual clay, residual error, Residual figure, Residual magnetism, Residual product, Residual quantity, Residual root, residual soil, Residuous ♦ Supplemental air. (references)

Specialty definitions using "residual": Functional Residual Capacity ♦ residual oil, Residual supplier, residual thiosulfate, residual thiosulfate test. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Residual" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (residual), German (residual), Portuguese (residual, residuary), Spanish (residual, residuary).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Oh my God, is this some sort of residual werewolf thing? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Residual Lyes from the Manufacture of Wood Pulp and Lignin Sulfonates Excluding Tall Oil: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Cisco Current Fair Market and Residual Value Update, July 2001 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) HDS Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 Residual Value Forecast, September 2001 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) International Conference on Residual Stresses - ICRS 2. 2 volume set (reference) Land Application of Residual Materials (reference) Network Appliance Residual Value Forecast, July 2001 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Kelley Blue Book Residual Value Guide (reference) Truck Blue Book Lease Guide Residual Projections (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	U.S. Public Health Service. : Demonstration unit- residual spraying for flies.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		A member of the ship's residual crew signals an approaching tug from the carrier's flight deck. Taken at Sasebo, Japan, 19 October 1945. Note this Japanese Signalman's bugle, and details of the ship's island.Credit: NAVY.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Henry David Thoreau	The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		A few patients are left with residual paralysis. (references)
		Some individuals are left with residual deficits. (references)
		The amount remaining is called the residual volume. (references)
Business		China needs to import 20,000-30,000 tons annually of high-efficiency and low residual pesticide to supplement local products and offer greater variety. (references)
		If the equipment has a residual value, and there is a secondary market, then the risk to the leasing company is lower, and it will demand fewer guarantees from the lessee. (references)
Civil Liberties	Vietnam	Vietnam and the United States continued to work together on the Resettlement Opportunity for Vietnamese Returnees (ROVR) Program in processing the residual applicants who had returned from refugee camps elsewhere in Southeast Asia. (references)
Economic History	Moldova	After the payment of taxes, foreign investors are permitted to repatriate residual funds. (references)
	Moldova	Residual fund transfers are not subject to any other duties or taxes and do not require special permission. (references)
Human Rights	Macedonia	Shortly after the arrests, members of the Albanian National Army (ANA)--a small residual group of armed extremist ethnic Albanians--took responsibility for the ambush of a police convoy near Trebos, a village northeast of Tetovo, which killed three police officers and wounded others. (references)
Political Economy	Nepal	The King retains important residual powers. (references)
	Congo	The FAC retains some residual police functions. (references)
Political Rights	Swaziland	When Parliament is not in session, the King may legislate by decree under his residual emergency powers. (references)
Trade	El Salvador	C. For pharmaceuticals, the list of ingredients, expiration date, dosage, contraindications, risks involved when used, residual toxic effects, etc. (references)
	Spain	Foodstuffs: The Directorate General of Health sets human consumption standards for the preparation, residual content and storage media for virtually all classes of foodstuffs. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Residual" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.28% of the time. "Residual" is used about 693 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	99.28%	688	9,642
Noun (proper)	0.72%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	693	N/A

Country	Name
Australia	Residual Assco Group
	(more examples...)

Expressions using "residual": Functional Residual Capacity ♦ licor ao bissulfito residual ♦ licor residual ao sulfito ♦ lixívia residual ao sulfito ♦ median residual lifetime ♦ minimum residual radioactivity weapon ♦ rayo residual ♦ residual air ♦ residual clay ♦ residual contamination ♦ residual crop ♦ residual deformation ♦ residual disease ♦ residual error ♦ residual figure ♦ residual G ♦ residual heat removal pump ♦ residual magnetism ♦ residual magnetization ♦ residual power ♦ residual product ♦ residual quantity ♦ residual radiation ♦ residual risk ♦ residual root ♦ residual soil ♦ residual stand ♦ residual strain ♦ residual stresses ♦ residual thiosulfate ♦ residual thiosulfate test ♦ residual value ♦ residual velocity loss ♦ Residual Volume ♦ residual work capacity. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "residual": residual-heat, residual-should.
	Ending with "residual": non-residual.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "residual"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tepricë (margin, odd-come-short, over, overage, overbalance, overflow, overmeasure, overplus, overrun, overstock, redundance, redundancy, remain, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, surplus, surplusage), mbeturinë (dross, fag end, leftover, remnant, residuum, scrap, vestige, vestigium), i mbetur (holdover, leftover, residuary). (various references)

Arabic		‏فضالة (superfluity), ‏متبق (remaining), ‏مرسب, ‏حثالة (dregs, refuse, sediment), ‏الفضالة (residue), ‏المتخلف (backward, lagging, moron, residue), ‏المتبقي, ‏الباقي (odd, remaining), ‏ثفل (grout, sediment, settling), ‏راسب. (various references)

Bulgarian		остатъчен (connate, remanent, residuary), остатък (balance, difference, dreg, end, odd-come-short, overage, patch, remainder, remnant, residue, residuum, shank, stub, surplus, the rest), останал след изваждане, останал (left, leftover, over, remanent, remaning, residuary, stayed), отпадъчен материал (residuum), отпадъчен продукт (residuum), необяснена грешка (residuum). (various references)

Chinese		残渣. (various references)

Czech		reziduální, zbytkový, zbylý (leave over, spare). (various references)

Danish		residual. (various references)

Dutch		reststof (residue), restrubriek, rest (remainder, residue, rest), residuaal, residueel, residu (breakdown product, heel, residual product, residual volume, residue, residue of combustion, tailing), overschot (balance, excess of excavated material, nikal, oddments, residue, side piling, surplus). (various references)

Farsi		وابسته به رسوب یاباقیمانده , رسوبی (Alluvial, Sedimentary). (various references)

Finnish		residuaali, jäännös (balance, error, remainder, remnant, residual product, residue, the rest). (various references)

French		résiduel, résidu (refuse, residual product, residue, residuum). (various references)

German		Rest (balance, carryover, end, left over, oddments, relic, remain, remainder, remains, reminder, remnant, residue, rest, scrap, surplus, tail), residual, restlich (odd, remaining, residuary), Rückstand (arrear of interest, arrearage, arrears, arrears of account, backlock, backlog, delay, overdue, remainder, remains, residue, residuum, rest, slime, slippage, tailing). (various references)

Greek		υπόλοιπο (amount outstanding, balance, position, remainder, remnant, residue, residuum, rest). (various references)

Hebrew		מושאר (left, left over, remaining, remnant), שרי�"י (vestigial), � ותר (remainder, remaining, remnant), � שאר (remaining). (various references)

Hungarian		megmaradó (remaining, residuary), üledék (bottoms, deposit, deposition, dreg, dregs, dross, emptyings, faeces, precipitate, precipitation, residue, sediment, settlings, silt, sludge). (various references)

Indonesian		sisa (remain, remainder, residue, rump, scrap). (various references)

Italian		residuo (bottoms, end, hog-wash, pig swill, pig-wash, remaining, residue, swill, swillings, trace). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		潜在主権 (residual sovereignty). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		せ�"ざいしゅけ�" (residual sovereignty). (various references)

Korean		�"여 (remaining). (various references)

Manx		jeelymagh (residuary). (various references)

Pig Latin		esidualray

Portuguese		residual (residuary), resíduo (draff, filter cake, Marcel, offal, remainder, residual contamination, residual product, residue, residuum, sludge, spoilage, tailing, waste). (various references)

Romanian		reziduu (grain, residue, residuum, sediment), rezidual (remanent), restant (remaining). (various references)

Russian		разность, остаток (leftover, odd-come-short, remain, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, scraps, surplus, vestige), оставшийся необъясненным. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		rezidualan, ostatak (leftover, odd-come-short, oddment, relic, remain, remainder, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, rump, vestige), ostali (remaining, residuary), koji preostaje. (various references)

Spanish		residuo (bottoms, deposit, drop crater, droplet impaction, point deposit, remainder, remnant, residual product, residue, residuum, spray coating, spray deposit, tailing, waste), residual (residuary). (various references)

Swedish		resterande (remaining). (various references)

Turkish		tortu şeklindeki, tortu (crust, deposit, deposition, draff, dregs, faeces, fecula, feculence, foots, grounds, Lees, remainder, residue, residuum, sediment, settlings, tailings), kalan (arrears, balance, left behind, leftover, over, remainder, remaining, residuary, residue, residuum, rest, rump, surviving, vestigial), kalıntı (carcase, carcass, end, hangover, relic, remainder, remnant, residue, rest, ruins, rump, spoils, waif), kalıcı (consistent, lasting, lingering, perdurable, perennial, permanent, persistent, stable), artan (accelerating, growing, leftover, odd, remaining, residuary, surplus, surplusage, upgrade), artık (anymore, at that, discard, dreg, dregs, dross, effluent, fag end, hog-wash, leftover, no longer, no more, refuse, remainder, remnant, residue, rest, scraps, shoddy, spoils, tag end, waste). (various references)

Ukranian		остача (balance, fritter, remainder, remnant, residue), залишковий (permanent, vestigial), залишок (carry over, end, left over, relic, remainder, remains, remnant, stump, vestige, vestigium). (various references)

Vietnamese		phần còn lại (remainder, remanet), còn dư. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "residual": residually, residuals. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Residual" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: residu, residuar, residule, restituas, risidual. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "residual" (pronounced ruzi"juwul)
4	-j uw u l	gradual.
3	-uw u l	annual, audiovisual, biannual, bisexual, conceptual, consensual, continual, contractual, eventual, factual, habitual, ineffectual, intellectual, manual, menstrual, parimutuel, perpetual, ritual, sexual, transsexual, virtual.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: audiles, derails, dialers, lauders, redials, residua, uredial.
	-2 letters: adieus, aiders, aisled, alders, ariels, ariled, audile, aulder, deairs, deasil, derail, dialer, drails, dulias, ideals, idlers, irades, laders, ladies, lairds, laired, lauder, liards, lidars, radius, railed, raised, redial, redias, relaid, resaid, resail, sailed, sailer, saurel, serail, serial, sidler, slider, uredia, urials.
	-3 letters: adieu, aider, aides.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: laundries, residuals, ruralised, squalider.
	+2 letters: adulteries, brutalised, lifeguards, quadrilles, residually, stridulate, unsalaried, vulgarised.
	+3 letters: delusionary, derailleurs, disgraceful, displeasure, elucidators, fluoridates, illustrated, naturalised, neutralised, popularised, secularised, secularized, semidiurnal, stridulated, stridulates, undesirable, undesirably.
	+4 letters: boatbuilders, circularised, displeasures, disregardful, disreputable, disreputably, durabilities, faultfinders, malnourished, modularities, quadrennials, reduplicates, restimulated, singularized, subeditorial, subepidermal, undesirables.
	+5 letters: adulterations, boulevardiers, denaturalizes, denuclearizes, deregulations, disarticulate, disequilibria, disgracefully, fluidextracts, furazolidones, glucuronidase, harlequinades, hyaluronidase, industrialise, industrialize, multistranded, preindustrial, quadriplegias, quadriplegics, quadrivalents, radionuclides, spiritualized, subordinately, superdiplomat, ultradistance, undescribable, universalized.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 73 69 64 75 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01110011 01101001 01100100 01110101 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#115 &#105 &#100 &#117 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0073 0069 0064 0075 0061 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
residual income	306	cloro residual	8
residual	104	residual income program	8
residual income opportunity	65	residual gas analyzer	8
residual value	34	income india residual	7
building residual income	31	chlorine residual	6
residual sanitizing self	30	automobile residual values	6
residual risk	29	residual values lease	6
residual values	19	residual income affiliate program	6
residual stress	17	current device residual	6
hazard residual	14	residual value lease	6
earn residual income	14	fund raiser residual	6
make residual income online	11	forum income residual	5
insurance residual value	10	forecast residual value	5
auto residual values	10	residual value auto	4
car residual value	10	cloro de edta residual	4
residual values of car	10	classifieds income residual	4
agua residual	10	administrative residual	4
residual income builder	9	residual stress welding	4
administrative residual union	9	quiste residual	4
residual schizophrenia	9	residual valor	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Residual

Definitions: Residual

Residual

Adjective

Noun

Specialty Definitions: Residual

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Residual

Synonyms: Residual

Synonyms within Context: Residual

Remainder

Crosswords: Residual

Modern Usage: Residual

Screenplays

Commercial Usage: Residual

References

Books

Periodicals

Photo Album: Residual

Familiar Quotations: Residual

Henry David Thoreau

Use in Literature: Residual

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Non-Fiction Usage: Residual

Usage Frequency: Residual

Usage in Company Names: Residual

Residual Assco Group

Expression: Residual

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Residual

Modern Translations: Residual

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Derivations & Misspellings: Residual

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Residual"

Anagrams: Residual

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Residual

52 65 73 69 64 75 61 6C

.-. . ... .. -.. ..- .- .-..

01010010 01100101 01110011 01101001 01100100 01110101 01100001 01101100

&#82 &#101 &#115 &#105 &#100 &#117 &#97 &#108

0052 0065 0073 0069 0064 0075 0061 006C

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