(biology) The volume of unexpended air that remains in the lungs following maximum expiration.

(psychoanalysis) Elements of the events of the preceding day that subsequently occur in a dream.

(law) Power that is retained by the government after other powers were distributed to other authorities in the course of elections or by the process of delegation.

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

plural of residual stress

plural of day's residue

plural of quadratic residue

(number theory, modular arithmetic) For given positive integer n, any integer that is congruent to some square m² modulo n.

That portion of air which cannot be expelled by the most violent efforts from the lungs.

(algebra) The quotient ring of a commutative ring divided by one of its maximal ideals; by a certain theorem such a quotient ring must be a field.