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Residual   /rɪzˈɪdʒuəl/   Listen
adjective
Residual  adj.  Pertaining to a residue; remaining after a part is taken.
Residual air (Physiol.), that portion of air contained in the lungs which can not be expelled even by the most violent expiratory effort. It amounts to from 75 to 100 cubic inches. Cf. Supplemental air, under Supplemental.
Residual error. (Mensuration) See Error, 6 (b).
Residual figure (Geom.), the figure which remains after a less figure has been taken from a greater one.
Residual magnetism (Physics), remanent magnetism. See under Remanent.
Residual product, a by product, as cotton waste from a cotton mill, coke and coal tar from gas works, etc.
Residual quantity (Alg.), a binomial quantity the two parts of which are connected by the negative sign, as a-b.
Residual root (Alg.), the root of a residual quantity, as sqrt(a-b).



noun
Residual  n.  (Math.)
(a)
The difference of the results obtained by observation, and by computation from a formula.
(b)
The difference between the mean of several observations and any one of them.






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"Residual" Quotes from Famous Books



... or local organization is to be inserted under Chapter ... providing for certain powers and rights to be given to local governments with the residual power left in the hands of the central government. The exact ...
— The Fight For The Republic In China • B.L. Putnam Weale

... aptitudes, feeling-tones, "habits," and faculties, we term character and personality, are in large part predetermined by the mental experiences of the past and the vestiges of memory which have been left as residual from these experiences. We are the offspring of ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

... gleamed the delicate blue of the half-formed ice. Sometimes, however, the "neves" spread over wide spaces without a rupture or wrinkle to break the smoothness of the superficial snow. The sky was now, for the most part, overcast, but through the residual blue spaces the sun at intervals poured light over the ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume VI • Various

... three days to finalize the atmospheric tests. Oxygen, nitrogen, helium, with trace gases. Those trace gases are stinkers. Bishop discovered a new inert gas, heavier than Xenon. He's excited. I'm currently checking stuff that looks like residual organic, and am not too happy about it. Still, this atmosphere ...
— Competition • James Causey

... molecules of these residual tissues which form the storehouse of energy in the body are rearranged in simpler forms, thereby giving up a portion of the energy which holds them together in the state in which they exist in the tissues, and this energy thus set free appears as muscle force, mental activity, glandular ...
— Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why - What Medical Writers Say • Martha M. Allen


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