Usually means: Remaining amount after primary removal.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. residual: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. residual: Merriam-Webster
  3. residual: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. residual: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. residual: Collins English Dictionary
  6. residual: Vocabulary.com
  7. Residual, residual: Wordnik
  8. residual: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. residual: Wiktionary
  10. residual: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. residual: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. residual: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. residual: Dictionary.com
  14. residual: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Residual (disambiguation), Residual (entertainment industry), Residual (numerical analysis), Residual (statistics), Residual: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Residual: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. residual: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. residual: Rhymezone
  19. residual, residual: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. residual: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. residual: FreeDictionary.org
  22. residual: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. residual: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. residual: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. residual: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. RESIDUAL: Accounting Glossary
  6. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  7. residual: Legal dictionary
  8. residual: Financial dictionary
  9. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. residual: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. residual: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Residual: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. residual: Medical dictionary
  6. Residual: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Residual: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. GLOSSARY OF ORDINATION-RELATED TERMS (No longer online)
  5. residual, residual, residual, residual: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  6. Statistics (No longer online)
  7. Residual: Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. residual: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Pool Glossary (No longer online)
  4. RESIDUAL: Power Engineering
  5. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (residual)

▸ adjective:  Of, relating to, or remaining as a residue; left over.
▸ noun:  A remainder left over at the end of some process.
▸ noun:  (chiefly in the plural) Payments made to performers, writers and directors when a recorded broadcast is repeated.
▸ noun:  (statistics) The difference between the observed value and the estimated value of the quantity of interest.
▸ noun:  (paranormal) A spiritual presence left behind in a place as a result of a person's death or some other significant event.

Similar:
residuary, remainder, residuum, residue, rest, excess, lingering, intrinsic, leftover, latent, more...

Opposite:
temporary, transient, fleeting, ephemeral, passing

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positive, negative, zero, constant, more...

Phrases:
residual stresses, Residual value, residual stress, residual volume, residual capacity, more...

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free, large, standardized, small, postvoid, unexplained, average, positive, mean, total, negative

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Similar:
residuary, remainder, residuum, residue, rest, excess, lingering, intrinsic, leftover, latent, more...

Opposite:
temporary, transient, fleeting, ephemeral, passing

Types:
positive, negative, zero, constant, more...

Phrases:
residual stresses, Residual value, residual stress, residual volume, residual capacity, residual disease, residual urine, residual income, residual oil, residual variance, residual error, residual risk, more...

Adjectives:
free, large, standardized, small, postvoid, unexplained, average, positive, mean, total, negative

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     olive,     taupe,     dusty rose, more...



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