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

Business

* Residual (entertainment industry), in business, one of an ongoing stream of royalties for rerunning or reusing motion pictures, television shows or commercials *

Profit (accounting) Profit, in accounting, is an income distributed to the ownership , owner in a Profit (economics) , profitable market production process (business). Profit is a measure of profitability which is the owner's major interest in the income-formati ...

, residuals that shareholders, partners or other owners are entitled to, after debtors are covered **Residual in the bankruptcy of insolvent businesses, moneys that are 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; for example Balloon payment mortgage

Mathematics, statistics and econometrics

* 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) In the mathematical field of group theory, a group is residually ''X'' (where ''X'' is some property of groups) if it "can be recovered from groups with property ''X''". Formally, a group ''G'' is residually ''X'' if for every non-trivial element ...

, 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

Popular culture

Music

* "Residuals" (song), a song by Chris Brown from his album ''11:11''

Geomorphology

A ''residual'' is the remnant of a formerly extensive mass of rock or land surface * Inselberg * Mesa *

Monadnock An inselberg or monadnock () is an isolated rock hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain. In Southern Africa a similar formation of granite is known as a koppie, a ...

Other uses

Residual neural network A residual neural network (ResNet) is an artificial neural network (ANN). It is a gateless or open-gated variant of the HighwayNet, the first working very deep feedforward neural network A feedforward neural network (FNN) is an artificial neu ...