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residual
/ɹɪˈzɪdʒuəl/
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Stress the second syllable and listen for “j.”
Use z for s and stress the second syllable. The d sounds like j, followed by oo and a light vowel before l.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The table shows the residual amount.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does residual mean?
adjective
- Of, relating to, or remaining as a residue; left over.
noun
- A remainder left over at the end of some process.
- Payments made to performers, writers and directors when a recorded broadcast is repeated.
More meanings (2)
noun
- The difference between the observed value and the estimated value of the quantity of interest.
- A spiritual presence left behind in a place as a result of a person's death or some other significant event.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɹɪˈzɪdʒuəl/
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The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
Since many of these people returned to the test site after shot-time to work on experiments, their film badges registered exposures from residual radioactivity on 16 July.
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It is quite certain that amongst the mass of people with whom we have to deal there will be a residual remnant of persons to some extent mentally infirm or physically incapacitated from engaging in the harder toils.
Though mere residual masses of the plateau, they are dowered with the grandeur and repose of mountains, together with the finely chiseled carving and modeling of man’s temples and palaces, and often, to a considerable extent, with their symmetry.
I found, at Caracas, the residual nitrogen very slightly mingled with carbonic acid, though the experiment was made in phials with ground-glass stoppers, not filled with water.) It is of snowy whiteness, and is no doubt the remains of a decomposed feldspar.