residual oil

1. 1.

   oil products that remain after petroleum has been distilled

   Synonymsresid

   Broaderpetroleum

Questions about residual oil

What does residual oil mean?

residual oil means "oil products that remain after petroleum has been distilled".

What is another word for residual oil?

Close synonyms include resid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is residual oil a common word?

residual oil is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.