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The residue \(R(X)\) of a Tikhonov space \(X\) is the set of points of \(X\) without compact neighborhoods. A remainder of \(X\) is a space of the form \(\alpha X\smallsetminus X\) where \(\alpha X\) is some compactification of \(X\). A space \(X\) is strongly zero-dimensional if \(\beta X\) has an open base of clopen sets. In this paper rimcompact spaces are characterized in terms of residues as follows: Theorem: The following are equivalent for a Tikhonov space \(X\): (1) \(X\) is rimcompact; (2) \(X\) is the residue of a space having a strongly zero-dimensional remainder; (3) \(X\) is the remainder of some strongly zero-dimensional space. Similar results are obtained for the almost rimcompact spaces introduced by Diamond. Conditions on \(X\) precluding the zero-dimensionality of any remainder of \(X\) are obtained.