A residual is generally a quantity left over at the end of a process. It may refer to:

Business

Residual (entertainment industry) Residuals are financial compensations that are paid to film or television actors, writers, directors, and others involved in making TV shows and movies in cases of the cable reruns, syndication, DVD release, or licensing to streaming media. ...

, in business, one of an ongoing stream of royalties for rerunning or reusing motion pictures, television shows or commercials *

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-format ...

, 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 in ...

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 A balloon payment mortgage is a mortgage loan, mortgage that does not fully amortization (business), amortize over the term of the mortgage note, note, thus leaving a balance due at Maturity (finance), maturity.Wiedemer, John P, ''Real Estate Fin ...

Mathematics, statistics and econometrics

Residual (statistics) In statistics and optimization, errors and residuals are two closely related and easily confused measures of the deviation of an observed value of an element of a statistical sample from its "true value" (not necessarily observable). The erro ...

** Studentized residual * Residual time, in the theory of renewal processes * Residual (numerical analysis) ** Minimal residual method **

Generalized 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 wit ...

* 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 ...

Residual property (mathematics) In the mathematics, 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-triv ...

, a concept in group theory *

Residually finite group In the mathematical field of group theory, a group ''G'' is residually finite or finitely approximable if for every element ''g'' that is not the identity in ''G'' there is a homomorphism ''h'' from ''G'' to a finite group, such that :h(g) \neq 1 ...

, 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 In abstract algebra, a residuated lattice is an algebraic structure that is simultaneously a lattice (order), lattice ''x'' ≤ ''y'' and a monoid ''x''•''y'' which admits operations ''x''\''z'' and ''z''/''y'', loosely analogous to division or i ...

, loosely analogous to division *

Residue (complex analysis) In mathematics, more specifically complex analysis, the residue is a complex number proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities. (More generally, residues can be calculated for ...

* Solow residual, in economics

Popular culture

Music

* "Residuals" (song), a song by Chris Brown from his album ''11:11''

Geomorphology

A ''residual'' is the remnant of a formerly extensive mass of rock or land surface *

Inselberg 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, an ...

Mesa A mesa is an isolated, flat-topped elevation, ridge, or hill, bounded from all sides by steep escarpments and standing distinctly above a surrounding plain. Mesas consist of flat-lying soft sedimentary rocks, such as shales, capped by a ...

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, an ...

Other uses

Residual neural network A residual neural network (also referred to as a residual network or ResNet) is a deep learning architecture in which the layers learn residual functions with reference to the layer inputs. It was developed in 2015 for image recognition, and won ...

* Residual volume, the amount of air left in the lungs after a maximal exhalation; see