remainder

plural remainders · alternative remainer

1. A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed or already occurred.

   You can have the remainder of my clothes.

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   My son ate part of his cake and I ate the remainder.

   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

   Synonyms: remnant

2. mathematicsThe 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.

   11 divided by 2 is 5 remainder 1.

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   17 leaves a remainder of 2 when divided by 3.

3. mathematicsThe number left over after a simple subtraction

   10 minus 4 leaves a remainder of 6

4. businessExcess 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. lawAn estate in expectancy which only comes in its heir's possession after an estate created by the same instrument has been determined

alternative remainer

1. not comparableRemaining.

   Synonyms: leftover

present singular third person remainders · participle present remaindering · participle past remaindered · past remaindered · alternative remainer

1. transitivebusinessTo 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.