different between residual vs subsiding

English

Etymology

Recorded since 1570. From residue, itself from Old French residu (Modern résidu), from Latin residuum (“a remainder”), the neuter inflection of residuus (“remaining, left over”), perfect participle of reside? (“I remain behind”) (from re- (“back, again”) + sede? (“I sit, I reside”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???z?d???l/, /???z?dj??l/, /???z?d??l/, /???z?dj?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???z?.d?u.?l/, /???z?.d??.w?l/, /???z?.d?w?l/, /???z?.d??l/, /??-/

Adjective

residual (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, or remaining as a residue; left over.

Synonyms

• residuary

Translations

Noun

residual (plural residuals)

1. A remainder left over at the end of some process.
2. (in the plural) Payments made to performers, writers and directors when a recorded broadcast is repeated.
3. (statistics) the difference between the observed value and the estimated value of the quantity of interest
4. (paranormal) A spiritual presence left behind in a place as a result of a person's death or some other significant event.

Derived terms

• pseudoresidual

Translations

Galician

Adjective

residual m or f (plural residuais)

1. residual

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /resi?dwal/, [re.si?ð?wal]

Adjective

residual (plural residuales)

1. residual

Derived terms

• aguas residuales

Related terms

• residuo

Further reading

• “residual” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?d??

Verb

subsiding

1. present participle of subside

Noun

subsiding (plural subsidings)

1. The act by which something subsides.
   • 1871, Edward Balfour, Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial and Scientific

     With such violent subterranean forces in operation, even at the present day, it is easy to apprehend how numerous must have been the uprisings and subsidings of the solid matter of the earth in this region during bye-gone ages.