A residual is generally a quantity left over at the end of a process. It may refer to:
Business
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Residual (entertainment industry), in business, one of an ongoing stream of royalties for rerunning or reusing motion pictures, television shows or commercials
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Profit (accounting)
Profit, in accounting, is an income distributed to the ownership , owner in a Profit (economics) , profitable market production process (business). Profit is a measure of profitability which is the owner's major interest in the income-formati ...
, residuals that shareholders, partners or other owners are entitled to, after debtors are covered
**Residual in the bankruptcy of
insolvent businesses, moneys that are 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; for example
Balloon payment mortgage
Mathematics, statistics and econometrics
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Residual (statistics)
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Studentized residual
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Residual time, in the theory of renewal processes
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Residual (numerical analysis)
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''0 of ''x'', the residual is
: b - f(x_0)
that is, "what is left of the right hand side" after ...
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Minimal residual method
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Generalized minimal residual method
* Residual set, the complement of a
meager set
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Residual property (mathematics) In the mathematical field of group theory, a group is residually ''X'' (where ''X'' is some property of groups) if it "can be recovered from groups with property ''X''".
Formally, a group ''G'' is residually ''X'' if for every non-trivial element ' ...
, a concept in group theory
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Residually finite group, a specific residual property
* The residual function attached to a
residuated mapping
In mathematics, the concept of a residuated mapping arises in the theory of partially ordered sets. It refines the concept of a monotone function.
If ''A'', ''B'' are posets, a function ''f'': ''A'' → ''B'' is defined to be monotone if it is o ...
* Residual in a
residuated lattice, loosely analogous to division
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Residue (complex analysis)
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Solow residual, in economics
Geomorphology
A ''residual'' is the remnant of a formerly extensive mass of rock or land surface
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Inselberg
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Mesa
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Monadnock
An inselberg or monadnock () is an isolated rock hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain.
In Southern Africa a similar formation of granite is known as a koppie, a ...
Other uses
* Residual volume, the amount of air left in the lungs after a maximal exhalation; see
Lung volumes
See also
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Residue (disambiguation)
Residue may refer to:
Chemistry and biology
* An amino acid, within a peptide chain
* Crop residue, materials left after agricultural processes
* Pesticide residue, refers to the pesticides that may remain on or in food after they are applied ...
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