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Residual

adjective

Relating to or indicating a remainder. Synonym: residuary.

noun

Something left after other parts have been taken away. Synonyms: balance, remainder, residue, residuum, rest. "He threw away the rest" , "He took what he wanted and I got the balance"

(often plural) a payment that is made to a performer or writer or director of a television show or commercial that is paid for every repeat showing.

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"Residual" Quotes from Famous Books

... coins and iridescent glass and fragments of tessellated pavement and such-like loot was all the population he had found amidst the fallen walls and broken friezes and columns of Salona. Down this coast there ebbed and flowed a mean residual life, a life of violence and dishonesty, peddling trades, vendettas and war. For a while the unstable Austrian ruled this land and made a sort of order that the incalculable chances of international politics might at any time shatter. Benham ...

— The Research Magnificent • H. G. Wells

... on level ground, he Would become exhausted at once.... The average person uses only about one seventh of his lung capacity in ordinary breathing, the rest of the air remaining at the bottom of the lung, being termed 'residual.' As this is vitiated by its stay in the lung, it does harm rather than good by its presence.... As we have seen, the lungs of a bird are small and non-elastic, but this is more than compensated by the continuous passage of fresh air, passing not only into but entirely through the lungs ...

— Bird Stories • Edith M. Patch

... comes in just here to account for the lack of respiration the minute after the violent effort. The residual air, which in a normal state is largely charged with carbonic acid, has been so completely exhausted that some moments are consumed before there is sufficient again to call upon ...

— Scientific American Supplement No. 275 • Various

... their beginning in concrete experiences in which feeling is a predominant element, and grow through the multiplication of these experiences much as the concept is developed through many percepts. There is a residual element left behind each separate experience in both cases. In the case of the concept the residual element is intellectual, and in the case of the sentiment it is a complex in which the ...

— The Mind and Its Education • George Herbert Betts

... larger nucleus by which it has been abandoned. As any nucleus gets smaller, its rate of rotation increases, and so the rings last thrown off will be spinning faster than those thrown off earliest. The final nucleus or residual central body will be rotating fastest ...

— Pioneers of Science • Oliver Lodge

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