remainder
English
Alternative forms
- remainer (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English remaindre, remeigner, from Anglo-Norman remaindre, with infinitive used as noun.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈmeɪndə/, /ɹəˈmeɪndə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɹəˈmeɪndɚ/
audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪndə(ɹ)
Noun
remainder (plural remainders)
- A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed.
- My son ate part of his cake and I ate the remainder.
- You can have the remainder of my clothes.
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- Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.
- (mathematics) 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.
- (mathematics) The number left over after a simple subtraction
- 10 minus 4 leaves a remainder of 6
- (commerce) 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.
- (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
- (a part or parts remaining): remnant, residue, rest, lave; See also Thesaurus:remainder
- surplus
Antonyms
- (a part or parts remaining): dearth, deficiency, deficit, shortage, undersupply
Derived terms
- R (mathematics)
- remainderman
- contingent remainder
Translations
what remains after some has been removed
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mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
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mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
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items left unsold and subject to reduction in price
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See also
Other terms used in arithmetic operations:
- successor
- addition, summation:
- (augend) + (addend) = (total)
- (summand) + (summand) + (summand)... = (sum)
- subtraction:
- (minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)
- multiplication, factorization:
- (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (product)
- (factor) × (factor) × (factor)... = (product)
- division:
- (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient)
- (numerator) / (denominator) = (quotient)
- Or sometimes = (quotient) with (remainder) remaining
- exponentiation:
- (base) (exponent) = (power)
- root extraction:
- (degree) √ (radicand) = (root)
- logarithmization:
- log(base) (antilogarithm) = (logarithm)
Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation
- modulus
See also
- remainderman
Adjective
remainder (not comparable)
- Remaining.
Synonyms
- leftover
Translations
remaining
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Verb
remainder (third-person singular simple present remainders, present participle remaindering, simple past and past participle remaindered)
- (transitive, commerce) 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.
Translations
commerce
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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English remainder.
Noun
remainder m (invariable)
- a remainder, (book) sold at reduced price
Anagrams
- rimendare