remainder
adjEtymology From Middle English remaindre, remeigner, from Anglo-Norman remaindre, with infinitive used as noun.
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Remaining.
- Synonyms
- leftover
remainder
nounUK /ɹɪˈmeɪndə/ · US /ɹəˈmeɪndɚ/
Etymology From Middle English remaindre, remeigner, from Anglo-Norman remaindre, with infinitive used as noun.
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A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed or already occurred.
- My son ate part of his cake and I ate the remainder.
- You can have the remainder of my clothes.
3 more examples
- He spent the remainder of the war in a prisoner-of-war camp.
- When the clocks are put forward at the introduction of summer time, the long-distance night trains automatically become one hour late, and continue to run late for the remainder of their journeys. […] Similarly, when the clocks are put back in the autumn, the night trains become one hour early.1951 June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Railways and Summer Time”, in Railway Magazine, page 429:
- Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:
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Mathematics, Sciences The amount left over after subtracting the divisor as many times as possible from the dividend without producing a negative result. If n (dividend) and d (divisor) are integers, then n can always be expressed in the form n = dq + r, where q (quotient) and r (remainder) are also integers and 0 ≤ r < d.
- 17 leaves a remainder of 2 when divided by 3.
- 11 divided by 2 is 5 remainder 1.
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Mathematics, Sciences The number left over after a simple subtraction
- 10 minus 4 leaves a remainder of 6
- I got a really good price on this shirt because it was a remainder.
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Law An estate in expectancy which only comes in its heir's possession after an estate created by the same instrument has been determined
- Synonyms
- remnant, residue, rest, lave, surplus, leavings, leftover, ort, relic, remainder, remains, remanent, residuum, rump
- Antonyms
- dearth, deficiency, deficit, shortage, undersupply, adjunct, decrement
- Derived terms
- Chinese remainder theorem, contingent remainder, pseudoremainder, R, remainderless, remainder-man, remainderman, remainder mark, remaindership, remainder trust, vested remainder, vested remainder subject to open
- Related terms
- successor, + =, + +... =, − =, × =, × ×... =, ÷ =, Or sometimes, =, √ =, log(base) =, modulus, remainderman, residual
- Hypernyms
- quantity