remainder
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English remaindre, remeigner, from Anglo-Norman remaindre, with infinitive used as noun.
Pronunciation Nounremainder (plural remainders)
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- (legal) An estate in expectancy which only comes in its heir's possession after an estate created by the same instrument has been determined
- (antonym(s) of “a part or parts remaining”): dearth, deficiency, deficit, shortage, undersupply
- French: reste
- German: Rest
- Italian: rimanenza, avanzo, restante, residuo, resto
- Portuguese: resto, sobra, restante, resquício, resíduo
- Russian: оста́ток
- Spanish: resto, remanente, sobras, restante, residuo, resquicio (Lat. Am.), remanente
- French: reste
- German: Rest, Teilungsrest
- Italian: resto
- Portuguese: resto
- Russian: оста́ток
- Spanish: resto
- German: Restposten
- Italian: rimanenza, invenduto
- Russian: оста́ток
- Spanish: saldo
remainder (not comparable)
Synonyms Verbremainder (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.
- German: runtersetzen
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