plural of residual stress

(physics) A stress that remains in a solid material after the original cause of the stress has been removed.

(statistics) the sum of the squared residuals between some model and a dataset; a measure of how well the model fits with the data

(electricity) An automatic circuit breaker that rapidly disconnects an electric circuit when the imbalance of the currents going through it exceeds a specific value.

Leaving no residue or lasting mark.

Absence of residue.