remainder

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
14
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ɹɪˈmeɪndə/
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/ɹɪˈmeɪndə/ · /ɹəˈmeɪndə/ · /ɹəˈmeɪndɚ/

Definition of remainder

7 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. 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.”
    “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.”
    “Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.”
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noun

  1. 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.”
    “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.”
    “Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.”
  2. 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.”
  3. The number left over after a simple subtraction
    “10 minus 4 leaves a remainder of 6”
  4. Excess stock items left unsold and subject to reduction in price.
    “I got a really good price on this shirt because it was a remainder.”
  5. An estate in expectancy which only comes in its heir's possession after an estate created by the same instrument has been determined

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Remaining.

verb

  1. (transitive)To mark or declare items left unsold as subject to reduction in price.
    “The bookstore remaindered the unsold copies of that book at the end of summer.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English remaindre, remeigner, from Anglo-Norman remaindre, with infinitive used as noun.

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