title: Residual
text: # Residual
  
  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), 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), 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
  
  ## Geomorphology
  
  A residual is the remnant of a formerly extensive mass of rock or land surface
  
  * Inselberg
  * Mesa
  * Monadnock
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Residual neural network
  * Residual volume, the amount of air left in the lungs after a maximal exhalation; see Lung volumes
  