About The Word Residual
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Residual
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What's The Definition Of Residual?
[n] (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"
[n] something left after other parts have been taken away; "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest" [adj] relating to or indicating a remainder; "residual quantity" Synonyms | Synonyms for Residual: remainder | residuary | residue | residuum | rest Related Terms | Find terms related to Residual: See Also | component | component part | leftover | part | payment | portion | remnant Residual In Webster's Dictionary \Re*sid"u*al\ (r?-z?d"?-al), a. [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-b.
{Residual root} (Alg.), the root of a residual quantity, as
[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. |
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