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

Business

  • Residual (entertainment industry), in business, one of an ongoing stream of royalties for rerunning or reusing motion pictures, television shows or commercials
  • Profit (accounting), 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

  • Residual (statistics)
  • Studentized residual
  • Residual time, in the theory of renewal processes
  • Residual (numerical analysis)
  • Minimal residual method
  • Generalized minimal residual method
  • Residual set, the complement of a meager set
  • Residual property (mathematics), a concept in group theory
  • Residually finite group, a specific residual property
  • The residual function attached to a residuated mapping
  • Residual in a residuated lattice, loosely analogous to division
  • Residue (complex analysis)
  • Solow residual, in economics

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
  • Mesa
  • Monadnock

Other uses

  • Residual neural network
  • Residual volume, the amount of air left in the lungs after a maximal exhalation; see Lung volumes

See also

  • Residue (disambiguation)