residual

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

In business:

• Residual (entertainment industry), in business, one of an ongoing stream of royalties for rerunning or reusing motion pictures, television shows or commercials
• Residuals, in business: profits that shareholders, partners or other owners are entitled to, after debtors are covered
  • Residual, in bankruptcy of insolvent businesses: any money that is 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, expressed either as a dollar value or a percentage of the amount borrowed.

In mathematics, statistics and econometrics, residual may refer to:

• 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
• Residual space, in statistics/linear algebra

In geomorphology, a residual is the remnant of a formerly extensive mass of rock or land surface such as a:

• Inselberg
• Mesa
• Monadnock