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Plural of residual

regular plural

The plural of residual is residuals.

Forms of residual

Singularresidual /ɹɪˈzɪd͡ʒ.ʊəl/
Pluralresiduals
Countablecountable

Residuals in a sentence

  • The tentative deal announced this week by the Writers Guild of America includes many industry-specific aspects, such as the size of writers’ rooms and improved residuals for streaming.2023 September 29, Adam Seth Litwin, “Want to Save Your Job From A.I.? Hollywood Screenwriters Just Showed You How.”, in The New York...
  • Because, despite his very small role as shark victim Alex Kintner when he was 12, Voorhees is still being paid residuals – royalties – 50 years later.2025 August 18, “‘You’re gonna need a bigger bank account’: how a Jaws child actor turned a fleeting appearance into a fortune”, in The...
  • Now — her voice woozed from the speaker—"The little money I accumulate comes from old residuals, poetry, and favors to men . . .1999, Luc Sante, Melissa Holbrook Pierson, O.K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors, page 30. From the entry wooze
  • In contrast to developments, a superdevelopment from a term M allows not only residuals of redexes in M to be reduced but also some newly created ones.2010, Eduardo Bonelli, Pablo Barenbaum, “Superdevelopments for Weak Reduction”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name). From the entry superdevelopment
  • Note that, if a large sample is taken, the M-estimation procedure will generally downweight some of the largest residuals, even if the error terms were normally distributed.2004, Thomas W. O'Gorman, Applied Adaptive Statistical Methods: Tests of Significance and Confidence Intervals, SIAM, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry downweight

Meaning of residual

  1. adjective Of, relating to, or remaining as a residue; left over.
  2. noun A remainder left over at the end of some process.
  3. noun Payments made to performers, writers and directors when a recorded broadcast is repeated.

Full definition of residual

Questions about the plural of residual

What is the plural of residual?
The plural of residual is residuals.
Is residual countable?
Residual is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: residual (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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