Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word REMAINDER

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Definitions of REMAINDER

1. A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed.
2. Remaining.
3. (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.
4. (mathematics) The number left over after a simple subtraction
5. (commerce) Excess stock items left unsold and subject to reduction in price.
6. (legal) An estate in expectancy which only comes in its heir's possession after an estate created by the same instrument has been determined
7. (transitive, commerce) To mark or declare items left unsold as subject to reduction in price.

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Examples of Using REMAINDER in a Sentence

• The war ended in Andronikos' forced abdication in 1328, after which he retired to a monastery for the remainder of his life.
• Following A's death, if B is still alive, the remainder is in abeyance, for B has no heirs until B's death.
• It was the largest naval battle and only full-scale clash of battleships of the war, and the outcome ensured that the Royal Navy denied the German surface fleet access to the North Sea and the Atlantic for the remainder of the war, as Germany avoided all fleet-to-fleet contact thereafter.
• Between 1939 and 1945, the state ceased to exist, as Slovakia proclaimed its independence and Carpathian Ruthenia became part of Hungary, while the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was proclaimed in the remainder of the Czech Lands.
• The first line is the name of the poem's subject, usually a famous person, and the remainder puts the subject in an absurd light or reveals something unknown or spurious about the subject.
• In mathematics, the Chinese remainder theorem states that if one knows the remainders of the Euclidean division of an integer n by several integers, then one can determine uniquely the remainder of the division of n by the product of these integers, under the condition that the divisors are pairwise coprime (no two divisors share a common factor other than 1).
• After achieving success as a songwriter for others, Parton made her album debut in 1967 with Hello, I'm Dolly, which led to success during the remainder of the 1960s (both as a solo artist and with a series of duet albums with Porter Wagoner), before her sales and chart peak arrived during the 1970s and continued into the 1980s.
• A coastal plain, western lowlands, and some 350 islands comprise the remainder of Eritrea's land mass.
• It is generally a long or extreme-long shot at the beginning of a scene indicating where, and sometimes when, the remainder of the scene takes place.
• In mathematics, the Euclidean algorithm, or Euclid's algorithm, is an efficient method for computing the greatest common divisor (GCD) of two integers (numbers), the largest number that divides them both without a remainder.
• It is used for implementing most of the editing functionality built into Emacs, the remainder being written in C, as is the Lisp interpreter.
• This was Odaka's first appearance in the Godzilla franchise as Miki Saegusa, and would reprise the role in every film for the remainder of the Heisei series.
• 1676 – Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.
• The remainder of the Nigerien people are nomadic or seminomadic livestock-raising peoples—Tuareg, Fulani, Toubou and Diffa Arabs.
• As an example, consider the sorting algorithms selection sort and insertion sort: selection sort repeatedly selects the minimum element from the unsorted remainder and places it at the front, which requires access to the entire input; it is thus an offline algorithm.
• The amendment reduced the presidential transition and the "lame duck" period, by which members of Congress and the president serve the remainder of their terms after an election.
• A revolt breaks out in Italy against Leo's Iconoclasm; this results in the independence of the Exarchate of Ravenna, after part of a Byzantine invasion force is lost in a storm in the Adriatic Sea, and the remainder of Byzantine troops are repulsed.
• About 75% of animals are rescues, with the remainder either born on location or acquired from other accredited facilities.
• Heckart, providing her with the surname by which she would be known throughout the remainder of her life.
• Johnston died in 1965, and the following year Hollings won a special election to serve the remainder of Johnston's term.

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