residuals
Payments for reruns
Residuals are payments made to performers—actors, voice artists, musicians—when their recorded work is rebroadcast, streamed, or reused: She still gets residuals from that commercial she shot in 2015.
In statistics and science, residuals are the differences between observed values and predicted values—what's left over after a model accounts for what it can.
The thread connecting both uses is something remaining after the main event: ongoing compensation after the original work, unexplained variance after the calculation.
Ongoing payments to creators
- annuitiesPeriodic fixed payments
- passive incomeMoney earned without labor
- syndicationMulti-outlet content distribution
- licensing feesPayments for usage rights
deferred compensation · depreciation · asset value · book value · salvage value · amortization
Return to former state
- varianceSpread around the mean
- errorFault in communication
- outliersExtreme data points
- normal distributionBell-shaped probability curve
autocorrelation · leverage · least squares · scatter plot · assumptions
What stays after most goes
- remainderWhat's left over
- surplusAmount exceeding requirement
- leavingsWhat's abandoned behind
- scrapsSmall remaining pieces
traces · vestiges · dregs · excess · carryover · holdover · rest · balance
Unwanted discarded material
- effluentDischarged liquid waste
- emissionsSubstances released into air
- pollutantsHarmful environmental substances
- tailingsPost-extraction mineral waste
slag · runoff · leachate · discharge · sediment · sludge · contaminants · industrial waste
Results of actions taken
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- rehabilitationRecovery from injury/addiction
royalties
Ongoing payments to creators
- annuitiesPeriodic fixed payments
- passive incomeMoney earned without labor
- syndicationMulti-outlet content distribution
licensing fees · deferred compensation · depreciation · asset value · book value · salvage value · amortization
regression
Return to former state
normal distribution · autocorrelation · leverage · least squares · scatter plot · assumptions
remnants
What stays after most goes
scraps · traces · vestiges · dregs · excess · carryover · holdover · rest · balance · unconsumed
waste
Unwanted discarded material
- effluentDischarged liquid waste
- emissionsSubstances released into air
- pollutantsHarmful environmental substances
tailings · slag · runoff · leachate · discharge · sediment · sludge · contaminants · industrial waste
consequences
Results of actions taken
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- rehabilitationRecovery from injury/addiction
- televisionTV, television, broadcast, TV shows, TV series
- HollywoodHollywood, Tinseltown, Hollywood Sign, silver screen, movie stars
- showbizHollywood, Bollywood, Tinseltown, backstage, behind the scenes
- incomesalary, earnings, income, wages, pay
- Money Gainsbonus, salary, wage, tip, tips
- work rewardsbonus, cash bonus, performance bonus, merit pay, merit raise
residualsupfront payment
Initial sum before delivery
base pay · flat fee · signing bonus · buyout · one-time payment
residualsestimates
Rough calculations of value
regression line · expected values · trend · signal · pattern
- residual limbExtremity portion remaining post-amputation
- residual volumeAir remaining after full exhalation
- residual chlorineLeftover disinfectant in water
- residual valueWorth after depreciation ends