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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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... of years as the geological age. This matter was discussed by me formerly (Trans. R.D.S., 1899, pp. 54 et seq.). The assumption made is, I believe, inadmissible. It is not supported by river analyses, or by the chemical character of residual soils from sedimentary rocks. There may be some convergence in the rate of solvent denudation, but—as I think on the evidence—in ...

— The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays • J. (John) Joly

... they release. So important is the part which sound plays in our lives that there must be an especially large number of such underground associations aroused by music. All of our experiences are connected together by subconscious filiation; but it is only in art that their residual feeling tones have a full opportunity to come into the mind; for in everyday life they are crowded out by the hurry of practical concerns. In the earlier stages of the development of music they must have contributed a still larger share to musical expression, ...

— The Principles Of Aesthetics • Dewitt H. Parker

... existing in plants is expelled by exposure to the air or a gentle heat, the residual dry matter is found to be composed of a considerable number of different substances, which have been divided into two great classes, called the organic and the inorganic, or mineral constituents of plants. The former are readily combustible, and on the application of heat, ...

— Elements of Agricultural Chemistry • Thomas Anderson

... lenses, if an interval be allowed between them; or by three lenses in contact, which may not all consist of the old glasses. In uniting three colours an "achromatism of a higher order'' is derived; there is yet a residual "tertiary spectrum,'' but it can always be ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... quite certain that amongst the mass of people with whom we have to deal there will be a residual remnant of persons to some extent mentally infirm or physically incapacitated from engaging in the harder toils. For these people it is necessary to find work, and I think there would be a good field for their benumbed energies in looking ...

— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth

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