residual
71residual activity — noun In a nuclear reactor, the activity remaining after the reaction is shut down following a period of operation • • • Main Entry: ↑residue …
72residual current device — noun A circuit breaker used to protect electrical equipment or its operator • • • Main Entry: ↑residue …
73residual value — noun (finance) The expected selling price of an asset at the end of its useful life • • • Main Entry: ↑residue …
74residual quantity — residual quantity, Mathematics. a binomial having one of its terms negative, as 2a b …
75Residual-current device — A two pole residual current device A Residual Current Device is a generic term covering both RCCBs and RCBOs. A Residual Current Circuit Breaker (RCCB) is an electrical wiring device that disconnects a circuit whenever it detects that the… …
76Residual (numerical analysis) — Loosely speaking, a residual is the error in a result. To be precise, suppose we want to find x such that : f(x)=b.,Given an approximation of x 0 of x , the residual is : b f(x 0),whereas the error is: x 0 x.,If we do not know x , we cannot… …
77Residual (entertainment industry) — A residual is a payment made to the creator of performance art (or the performer in the work) for subsequent showings or screenings of the (usually filmed) work. A typical use is in the payment of residuals for television reruns. The word is… …
78Residual risk — The residual risk is the risk or danger of an action or an event, a method or a (technical) process that, although being abreast with science, still conceives these dangers, even if all theoretically possible safety measures would be applied… …
79Residual haunting — A Residual haunting, AKA a restligeist (German loan word) from restlich (residual) and Geist (ghost), is thought by some to be a replayed haunting in which no intelligent ghost, spirit, or other entity is directly involved. Much like a video tape …
80Residual (mathematics) — The word residual is used in a number of different senses in mathematics. See:* Errors and residuals in statistics * Residual (numerical analysis) ** Minimal residual method (MINRES) ** Generalized minimal residual method (GMRES) * Residual set,… …
