The phrase "residual warmth" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a remaining or lingering sense of warmth that is no longer actively being generated. Example: As the sun set on the evening, the campfire's embers provided a comforting residual warmth that kept us cozy throughout the night.
This is fine if you're young with a galloping metabolism, but when you're nearly 60 and able to detect the residual warmth in a toaster at 20 paces you want something more substantial.
Withers, while making the cause of the wife's frustration just as plainly sexual, might well have conveyed a certain residual warmth and humanity that would have transformed melodrama into drama.
Admirers of the first two films will feel pangs of nostalgia and a residual warmth for its charismatic leads, but as an extension to the series it feels forced and unnecessary.
The Aspirant Dunand pool in the 14th arrondissement is the latest in a series of French public buildings to use heat pumps to recycle residual warmth from showers, dishwashers and washing machines in its sewers.
Tentatively putting our hands inside the holes, feeling the residual warmth that was about the temperature of a sauna, provided a little thrill.
Another good idea: Touch the Rest button while the car is stationary and not running, and residual warmth generated by the engine will be circulated to the cabin, so you get heat without firing the engine up.
Despite shockingly violent images, a residual human warmth lingers.
The scientists also mapped out the forces that created the twister outbreak, the worst in November in a decade, and saw in them a distinctive but rare recipe for widespread disaster: a collision between a big pre-winter gush of frigid air and an unusually broad reservoir of residual tropical warmth and moisture flowing from the Gulf of Mexico.
I don't doubt 5,000 years of Chinese medicine". Sweetened meringues that were crafted for King Louis XIV in France needed the warmth of a low oven and long hours of residual drying heat.
Heck, a residual is still a residual.
