Residual

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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 payments for the completion of past achievements
• 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:

• Errors and residuals in 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
• Residue (complex analysis)
• Solow residual, in economics

See also

• Residue
• Residual frame, in video compression
• Residual stress, the stresses that remain in a material after the original cause of the stresses, for example external forces or heat gradient, has been removed.
• Residual volume, the amount of air left in the lungs after a maximal exhalation
• ResidualVM, a game engine recreation