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)
Residuals are financial compensations that are paid to the actors, film or television directors, and others involved in making TV shows and movies in cases of reruns, syndication, DVD release, or online streaming release. Residuals are calculated ...
, 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
In accounting, insolvency is the state of being unable to pay the debts, by a person or company (debtor), at maturity; those in a state of insolvency are said to be ''insolvent''. There are two forms: cash-flow insolvency and balance-sheet inso ...
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 In mathematics, the generalized minimal residual method (GMRES) is an iterative method for the numerical solution of an indefinite nonsymmetric system of linear equations. The method approximates the solution by the vector in a Krylov subspace with ...
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Generalized minimal residual method
* Residual set, the complement of a
meager set
In the mathematical field of general topology, a meagre set (also called a meager set or a set of first category) is a subset of a topological space that is small or negligible in a precise sense detailed below. A set that is not meagre is called ...
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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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