adj
Meaning 1
Remaining.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
remainder
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈmeɪndə/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɹəˈmeɪndə/
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General-American: /ɹəˈmeɪndɚ/
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rhymes with -eɪndə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: R IH0 M EY1 N D ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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noun
Meaning 2
A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed or already occurred.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
Examples
- 17 leaves a remainder of 2 when divided by 3.
- 11 divided by 2 is 5 remainder 1.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
The number left over after a simple subtraction
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
Examples
- 10 minus 4 leaves a remainder of 6
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Excess stock items left unsold and subject to reduction in price.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, commerce
Examples
- I got a really good price on this shirt because it was a remainder.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
An estate in expectancy which only comes in its heir's possession after an estate created by the same instrument has been determined
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To mark or declare items left unsold as subject to reduction in price.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: business, commerce
Examples
- The bookstore remaindered the unsold copies of that book at the end of summer.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: end, remnant, oddment
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: piece of cloth, piece of material
Narrower terms: fag end
noun
Meaning 9
the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: difference
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: number
Narrower terms: balance
noun
Meaning 10
the part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: number
noun
Meaning 11
something left after other parts have been taken away
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- there was no remainder
- he threw away the rest
- he took what he wanted and I got the balance
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: part, portion, component part, component, constituent
Narrower terms: leftover, remnant
verb
Meaning 12
sell cheaply as remainders
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The publisher remaindered the books
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sell
History
Etymology
From Middle English remaindre, remeigner, from Anglo-Norman remaindre, with infinitive used as noun.
Across languages
Translations
211 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: оставащ (ostavašt) — remaining
- Dutch: overblijvend — remaining
- Dutch: resterend — remaining
- Finnish: jäljellä oleva — remaining
- Greek: υπόλοιπος (ypóloipos) — remaining
- Hindi: शेष (śeṣ) — remaining
- Polish: pozostały — remaining
- Polish: zachowany — remaining
- Albanian: mbetje — what remains after some has been removed
- Arabic: بَقِيَّة (baqiyya) — what remains after some has been removed
- Arabic: باقي (bāgi) — what remains after some has been removed
- Armenian: մնացորդ (mnacʻord) — what remains after some has been removed
- Azerbaijani: qalıq — what remains after some has been removed
- Bashkir: ҡалдыҡ (qaldıq) — what remains after some has been removed
- Bashkir: ҡалғаны (qalğanı) — what remains after some has been removed
- Bashkir: ҡалған өлөшө (qalğan) — what remains after some has been removed
- Belarusian: рэ́шта (réšta) — what remains after some has been removed
- Belarusian: аста́ча (astáča) — what remains after some has been removed
- Bulgarian: оста́тък (ostátǎk) — what remains after some has been removed
- Cebuano: salin — what remains after some has been removed
- Chinese Mandarin: 其餘 /其余 (qíyú) — what remains after some has been removed
- Czech: zbytek — what remains after some has been removed
- Danish: rest — what remains after some has been removed
- Dutch: rest — what remains after some has been removed
- Dutch: restant — what remains after some has been removed
- Dutch: overblijfsel — what remains after some has been removed
- Dutch: overschot — what remains after some has been removed
- Esperanto: cetero — what remains after some has been removed
- Estonian: jääk — what remains after some has been removed
- Estonian: jäänus — what remains after some has been removed
- Finnish: loput — what remains after some has been removed
- Finnish: jäännös — what remains after some has been removed
- Finnish: jäämä — what remains after some has been removed
- Finnish: jäljelle jäänyt — what remains after some has been removed
- Finnish: jäänne — what remains after some has been removed
- Finnish: jämä — what remains after some has been removed
- French: reste — what remains after some has been removed
- Georgian: ნარჩენი (narčeni) — what remains after some has been removed
- German: Rest — what remains after some has been removed
- Greek: υπόλοιπο (ypóloipo) — what remains after some has been removed
- Ancient Greek: λοιπάς (loipás) — what remains after some has been removed
- Hindi: अतिरिक्त (atirikt) — what remains after some has been removed
- Hindi: शेष (śeṣ) — what remains after some has been removed
- Hindi: बाक़ी (bāqī) — what remains after some has been removed
- Hindi: बाकी (bākī) — what remains after some has been removed
- Hungarian: maradék — what remains after some has been removed
- Hungarian: többi — what remains after some has been removed
- Icelandic: afgangur — what remains after some has been removed
- Icelandic: eftirstöðvar — what remains after some has been removed
- Icelandic: rest — what remains after some has been removed
- Icelandic: restar — what remains after some has been removed
- Icelandic: leifar — what remains after some has been removed
- Interlingua: resto — what remains after some has been removed
- Irish: fuílleach — what remains after some has been removed
- Italian: rimanenza — what remains after some has been removed
- Italian: avanzo — what remains after some has been removed
- Italian: restante — what remains after some has been removed
- Italian: residuo — what remains after some has been removed
- Italian: resto — what remains after some has been removed
- Japanese: 残り (nokori) — what remains after some has been removed
- Kazakh: қалдық (qaldyq) — what remains after some has been removed
- Korean: 나머지 (nameoji) — what remains after some has been removed
- Kyrgyz: калдык (kaldık) — what remains after some has been removed
- Latin: reliquum — what remains after some has been removed
- Latvian: atlikums — what remains after some has been removed
- Lithuanian: lỹkis — what remains after some has been removed
- Macedonian: остаток (ostatok) — what remains after some has been removed
- Malay: baki — what remains after some has been removed
- Malayalam: ബാക്കി (bākki) — what remains after some has been removed
- Malayalam: മിച്ചം (miccaṁ) — what remains after some has been removed
- Malayalam: ശിഷ്ടം (śiṣṭaṁ) — what remains after some has been removed
- Māori: whakamakere — what remains after some has been removed
- Māori: mōmōhanga — what remains after some has been removed
- Māori: toenga — what remains after some has been removed
- Norwegian Bokmål: rest — what remains after some has been removed
- Norwegian Nynorsk: rest — what remains after some has been removed
- Persian: بقیه (baqiye) — what remains after some has been removed
- Plautdietsch: Äwabliefsel — what remains after some has been removed
- Polish: reszta — what remains after some has been removed
- Polish: ostatek — what remains after some has been removed
- Portuguese: resto — what remains after some has been removed
- Portuguese: sobra — what remains after some has been removed
- Portuguese: restante — what remains after some has been removed
- Portuguese: resquício — what remains after some has been removed
- Portuguese: resíduo — what remains after some has been removed
- Quechua: puchu — what remains after some has been removed
- Romanian: rest — what remains after some has been removed
- Russian: оста́ток (ostátok) — what remains after some has been removed
- Russian: оста́тки (ostátki) — what remains after some has been removed
- Serbo-Croatian: оста́так — what remains after some has been removed
- Serbo-Croatian: ostátak — what remains after some has been removed
- Slovak: zbytok — what remains after some has been removed
- Slovak: zvyšok — what remains after some has been removed
- Slovene: ostanek — what remains after some has been removed
- Spanish: resto — what remains after some has been removed
- Spanish: remanente — what remains after some has been removed
- Spanish: sobras — what remains after some has been removed
- Spanish: restante — what remains after some has been removed
- Spanish: residuo — what remains after some has been removed
- Spanish: resquicio (Lat. Am.) — what remains after some has been removed
- Swahili: salio — what remains after some has been removed
- Swedish: rest — what remains after some has been removed
- Tajik: бақия (baqiya) — what remains after some has been removed
- Tajik: боқимонда (boqimonda) — what remains after some has been removed
- Tamil: பாக்கி (pākki) — what remains after some has been removed
- Tamil: மீதி (mīti) — what remains after some has been removed
- Tatar: калдык (qaldıq) — what remains after some has been removed
- Telugu: తరవాయి (taravāyi) — what remains after some has been removed
- Turkish: kalan — what remains after some has been removed
- Ottoman Turkish: آرتق (artık) — what remains after some has been removed
- Ukrainian: за́лишок (zályšok) — what remains after some has been removed
- Ukrainian: ре́шта (réšta) — what remains after some has been removed
- Ukrainian: оста́ча (ostáča) — what remains after some has been removed
- Ukrainian: ли́шок (lýšok) — what remains after some has been removed
- Urdu: باقی (bāqī) — what remains after some has been removed
- Uzbek: qoldiq — what remains after some has been removed
- Uzbek: boqimonda — what remains after some has been removed
- Uzbek: qolgan — what remains after some has been removed
- Armenian: մնացորդ (mnacʻord) — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Asturian: restu — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Bashkir: ҡалдыҡ (qaldıq) — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Bulgarian: оста́тък (ostátǎk) — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Burmese: အကြွင်း (a.krwang:) — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Catalan: resta — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Catalan: residu — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Cebuano: kida — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Cebuano: puwaki — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Chinese Mandarin: 餘數 /余数 (yúshù) — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Czech: zbytek — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Danish: rest — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Dutch: rest — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Finnish: jakojäännös — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- French: reste — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Galician: resto — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Galician: residuo — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Georgian: ნაშთი (našti) — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- German: Rest — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- German: Teilungsrest — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Greek: υπόλοιπο (ypóloipo) — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Hindi: शेष (śeṣ) — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Hungarian: maradék — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Icelandic: afgangur — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Irish: fuílleach — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Italian: resto — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Japanese: 剰余 (jōyo) — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Khmer: សំណល់ (sɑmnɑl) — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Korean: 나머지 (nameoji) — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Malayalam: ശിഷ്ടം (śiṣṭaṁ) — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Māori: hemihemi — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Polish: reszta — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Portuguese: resto — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Russian: оста́ток (ostátok) — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Serbo-Croatian: оста́так — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Serbo-Croatian: ostátak — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Sindhi: پاڇِي (pāčhī) — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Spanish: resto — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Spanish: residuo — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Swedish: rest — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Tagalog: labi — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Turkish: kalan — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Ukrainian: оста́ча (ostáča) — mathematics: amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor
- Armenian: մնացորդ (mnacʻord) — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Bashkir: айырма (ayırma) — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Basque: hondar — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Cebuano: sobra — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Dutch: rest — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Finnish: erotus — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Georgian: ნაშთი (našti) — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- German: Rest — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Greek: υπόλοιπο (ypóloipo) — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Hindi: शेष (śeṣ) — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Hungarian: különbség — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Hungarian: különbözet — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Icelandic: afgangur — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Ingrian: jäännös — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Italian: resto — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Persian: باقیمانده (bâqi-mânde) — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Persian: بازمانده (bâzmânde) — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Polish: różnica — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Portuguese: resto — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Portuguese: diferença — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Russian: ра́зность (ráznostʹ) — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Russian: оста́ток (ostátok) — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Serbo-Croatian: оста́так — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Serbo-Croatian: ostátak — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Sora: ostatak — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Spanish: resto — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Tagalog: labi — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Turkish: kalan — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Ukrainian: різни́ця (riznýcja) — mathematics: number left over after a simple subtraction
- Bulgarian: оста́тък (ostátǎk) — items left unsold and subject to reduction in price
- Czech: zbytek — items left unsold and subject to reduction in price
- Dutch: overschot — items left unsold and subject to reduction in price
- Dutch: overstock — items left unsold and subject to reduction in price
- Finnish: jäännöserä — items left unsold and subject to reduction in price
- German: Restposten — items left unsold and subject to reduction in price
- Italian: rimanenza — items left unsold and subject to reduction in price
- Italian: invenduto — items left unsold and subject to reduction in price
- Japanese: 売れ残り (urenokori) — items left unsold and subject to reduction in price
- Polish: niesprzedane przedmioty — items left unsold and subject to reduction in price
- Russian: оста́ток (ostátok) — items left unsold and subject to reduction in price
- Russian: оста́тки (ostátki) — items left unsold and subject to reduction in price
- Spanish: saldo — items left unsold and subject to reduction in price
- Turkish: kalan — items left unsold and subject to reduction in price
- Ukrainian: ре́шта (réšta) — items left unsold and subject to reduction in price
- Ukrainian: ре́штки (réštky) — items left unsold and subject to reduction in price
- Dutch: opruimen — commerce
- Dutch: uitverkopen — commerce
- German: runtersetzen — commerce
- Polish: obniżać ceny niesprzedanych przedmiotów — commerce
- Polish: obniżyć ceny niesprzedanych przedmiotów — commerce
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