residual

Meanings

Adjective

• Of, relating to, or remaining as a residue; left over.

Noun

• A remainder left over at the end of some process.
• Payments made to performers, writers and directors when a recorded broadcast is repeated.
• the difference between the observed value and the estimated value of the quantity of interest
• A spiritual presence left behind in a place as a result of a person's death or some other significant event.

Related

Similar words

• residuary

Origin

• Recorded since 1570. From residue, itself from Old French residu (Modern résidu), from Latin residuum, the neuter inflection of residuus, perfect participle of resideō (from re- + sedeō.