remainder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmeɪndə/
ipa: /ɹəˈmeɪndə/
ipa: /ɹəˈmeɪndɚ/
rhymes: -eɪndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: remainders
form: remainer
Etymology: From Middle English remaindre, remeigner, from Anglo-Norman remaindre, with infinitive used as noun.
Senses: examples: text: My son ate part of his cake and I ate the remainder.
text: You can have the remainder of my clothes.
text: He spent the remainder of the war in a prisoner-of-war camp.
text: 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.
ref: 1951 June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Railways and Summer Time”, in Railway Magazine, page 429:
text: Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.
ref: 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:
glosses: A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed or already occurred.
examples: text: 17 leaves a remainder of 2 when divided by 3.
text: 11 divided by 2 is 5 remainder 1.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: 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.
examples: text: 10 minus 4 leaves a remainder of 6
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The number left over after a simple subtraction
examples: text: I got a really good price on this shirt because it was a remainder.
topics: business
commerce
glosses: Excess stock items left unsold and subject to reduction in price.
topics: law
glosses: An estate in expectancy which only comes in its heir's possession after an estate created by the same instrument has been determined
Synonyms: sense: a part or parts remaining
word: remnant
word: residue
word: rest
word: lave
word: surplus
word: leavings
word: leftover
word: ort
word: relic
word: remainder
word: remains
word: remanent
word: residuum
word: rump
Hypernyms: word: quantity
Hyponyms: word: debris
word: deposit
word: dross
word: gubbins
word: leftovers
word: others
word: scraps
word: trash
word: excess
word: overplus
word: oversum
word: surplus
word: draff
word: dregs
word: grounds
word: grout
word: lees
word: sediment
word: settlings
word: ash
word: ember
word: cinder
Derived terms: word: Chinese remainder theorem
word: contingent remainder
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: R
word: remainder-man
word: remainderman
word: remainder mark
word: remainder trust
word: vested remainder
word: vested remainder subject to open
Related terms: word: successor
sense: addition, summation
english: addend; total
translation: addend; total
alt: augend
word: + =
sense: addition, summation
english: sum
translation: sum
alt: summand
word: + +... =
sense: subtraction
roman: subtrahend
english: difference
translation: difference
word: − =
sense: multiplication, factorization; multiplier
roman: multiplicand
english: product
translation: product
word: × =
sense: multiplication, factorization; factor
english: factor; factor; product
translation: factor; factor; product
word: × ×... =
sense: division; dividend
roman: quotient
word: ÷ =
sense: numerator) / (denominator) = (quotient
english: with remaining
translation: with remaining
alt: quotient
word: Or sometimes
sense: exponentiation; base
english: power
translation: power
alt: exponent
word: =
sense: root extraction; degree
roman: radicand
word: √ =
sense: logarithmization
english: logarithm
translation: logarithm
alt: antilogarithm
word: log(base) =
word: modulus
word: remainderman
word: residual