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RESIDUAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(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
Example:
he could retire on his residuals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("residual" is a kind of...):
payment (a sum of money paid or a claim discharged)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Something left after other parts have been taken away
Example:
he took what he wanted and I got the balance
Synonyms:
balance; remainder; residual; residue; residuum; rest
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("residual" is a kind of...):
component; component part; constituent; part; portion (something determined in relation to something that includes it)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "residual"):
leftover; remnant (a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists)
Derivation:
residual (relating to or indicating a remainder)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to or indicating a remainder
Example:
residual quantity
Synonyms:
residual; residuary
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
residue (matter that remains after something has been removed)
Derivation:
residual; residue (something left after other parts have been taken away)
residue (matter that remains after something has been removed)
Context examples:
Remission with remaining lymphoid nodules reflecting residual disease.
(Nodular Partial Response, NCI Thesaurus)
The new device uses a low-residual chlorine dose (0·3–0·5 parts per million), which increases taste acceptability and improves drinking water quality.
(Chlorine dispensers fitted to public taps cut child diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)
An advantageous side-effect of a graft-vs-host reaction in which a leukemia patient is first irradiated to kill residual leukemic cells and is then given a bone marrow graft to replenish the immune system.
(Graft-vs-Leukemia Effect, NCI Thesaurus)
A focus of residual alveoli that persist in the mouse mammary gland following hormone stimulation
(LobuloAlveolar Mouse MIN, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
When reintroduced back to patients after autologous stem cell transplantation, CIK cells may recognize and kill tumor cells associated with minimal residual disease (MRD).
(Cytokine-Induced Killer Cells, NCI Thesaurus)
A metabolic precursor to aspartate, Asparagine is a nontoxic carrier of residual ammonia to be eliminated from the body.
(Asparagine, NCI Thesaurus)
A device that experienced damage as the result of a chemical agent used during the sterilization process e.g. excessive residual chemical or an incompatible sterilant.
(Device Chemical Agent Damage Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)
A component of the Apgar score, it is the numerical value assigned to an assessment of the residual muscle tension of a neonate. 0 = flaccid; 1 = flexion of extremities; 2 = active motion.
(Muscle Tone Score, NCI Thesaurus)
A vaccine that contains the GM2 and GD2 antigens separately coupled to the carrier protein Keyhole Limpet Hemocyanin and mixed with QS-21 adjuvant (an immune system stimulant), designed to stimulate a patient's immune system to control or eradicate residual cancer cells after surgery, radiation or chemotherapy.
(MGV Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)
Researchers from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have produced the first direct evidence that parts of our brains implicated in mental disorders may be shaped by a residual echo from our ancient past.
(“Residual echo” of ancient humans in scans may hold clues to mental disorders, National Institutes of Health)
