residual

English

Etymology

Recorded since 1570. From residue, itself borrowed during the Middle English period from Old French residu (Modern French résidu), from Latin residuum (“a remainder”), the neuter inflection of residuus (“remaining, left over”), perfect participle of resideō (“to remain behind”), from re- (“back, again”) + sedeō (“to sit, to reside”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzɪd͡ʒ.ʊəl/, /ɹɪˈzɪd.jʊəl/, /ɹɪˈzɪd͡ʒ.əl/, /ɹɪˈzɪd.jəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzɪd͡ʒ.u.əl/, /ɹɪˈzɪd͡ʒ.ə.wəl/, /ɹɪˈzɪd͡ʒ.wəl/, /ɹɪˈzɪd͡ʒ.əl/, /ɹə-/

  • Audio (US):

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Adjective

residual (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, or remaining as a residue; left over.
   • 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 185:

     Yet certain films leave a residual memory—such as Psycho: many people still feel uneasy showering in a motel bathroom.

   • 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 59:

     Abolitionists argued that race had no place in a free and democratic society as a dividing line. Economic and social policies and practices, they argued, should be race-neutral and egalitarian. Yet despite these racially egalitarian values, much abolitionist rhetoric exhibited a strong residual commitment to racialist thinking and a palpable devotion to white supremacy.

Synonyms

• residuary

Derived terms

• residual air
• residual alkalinity
• residual-current device
• residual haunting
• residual power
• residual risk
• residual stress
• residual sum of squares
• residual volume
• residual waste

 

Translations

concerning a residue

• Bulgarian: остатъчен (ostatǎčen)
• Catalan: residual
• Dutch: overgebleven (nl), residuair (nl)
• Finnish: jäännös-, jälki- (fi)
• French: résiduel (fr), résiduelle (fr)
• German: verbleibend (de), übrigbleibend (de), restlich (de), übrig (de)
• Greek: υπολειμματικός (el) (ypoleimmatikós)
• Hebrew: שיורי m, שיורית f, שיוריות f pl, שיוריים m pl
• Hungarian: megmaradó (hu), megmaradt (hu), maradék (hu) (attributive noun)
• Italian: residuo (it), residuato (it), rimasto (it)
• Russian: оста́точный (ru) (ostátočnyj)
• Spanish: residual (es)
• Swedish: kvarvarande (sv), resterande (sv), överbliven (sv), återstående (sv)

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• French: ^{(please verify)} résiduaire (fr)

Noun

residual (plural residuals)

1. A remainder left over at the end of some process.
2. (chiefly in the plural) Payments made to performers, writers and directors when a recorded broadcast is repeated.
   • 2023 September 29, Adam Seth Litwin, “Want to Save Your Job From A.I.? Hollywood Screenwriters Just Showed You How.”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The tentative deal announced this week by the Writers Guild of America includes many industry-specific aspects, such as the size of writers’ rooms and improved residuals for streaming.

3. (statistics) The difference between the observed value and the estimated value of the quantity of interest.
4. (paranormal) A spiritual presence left behind in a place as a result of a person's death or some other significant event.

Derived terms

• pseudoresidual

Translations

a remainder left over at the end of some process

• Bulgarian: остатък (bg) m (ostatǎk)
• Catalan: residu (ca) m
• Dutch: overblijfsel (nl) n, residu (nl) n, restant (nl) n, restproduct (nl) n
• Finnish: jäännös (fi)
• Irish: fuílleach m
• Russian: оста́ток (ru) m (ostátok)

payments made to performers, writers and directors when a recorded broadcast is repeated

• Finnish: uusintapalkkio
• Georgian: განმეორებითი ჩვენების ჰონორარი (ganmeorebiti čvenebis honorari), ჰონორარი განმეორებითი ჩვენებისთვის (honorari ganmeorebiti čvenebistvis), ანაზღაურება განმეორებითი ჩვენებისთვის (anazɣaureba ganmeorebiti čvenebistvis)

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• French: ^{(please verify)} restant (fr) m, ^{(please verify)} résidu (fr) m

Galician

Adjective

residual m or f (plural residuais)

1. residual

Portuguese

Etymology

From resíduo +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.zi.duˈaw/ [he.zi.dʊˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ʁe.ziˈdwaw/ [he.ziˈdwaʊ̯]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.zi.duˈaw/ [he.zi.dʊˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ʁe.ziˈdwaw/ [he.ziˈdwaʊ̯]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁe.zi.duˈaw/ [χe.zi.dʊˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ʁe.ziˈdwaw/ [χe.ziˈdwaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨ.ziˈdwal/ [ʁɨ.ziˈðwaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨ.ziˈdwal/ [ʁɨ.ziˈðwaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨ.ziˈdwa.li/ [ʁɨ.ziˈðwa.li]

• Hyphenation: re‧si‧du‧al

Adjective

residual m or f (plural residuais)

1. residual

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /resiˈdwal/ [re.siˈð̞wal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: re‧si‧dual

Adjective

residual m or f (masculine and feminine plural residuales)

1. residual

Derived terms

• aguas residuales
• residualmente

 

Related terms

• residuo

 

Further reading

• “residual”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10