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Remainder

noun

1.

Something left after other parts have been taken away. Synonyms: balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest. "He threw away the rest" , "He took what he wanted and I got the balance"

2.

The part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor.

3.

The number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend. Synonym: difference.

4.

A piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold. Synonyms: end, oddment, remnant.

verb

1.

Sell cheaply as remainders.

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"Remainder" Quotes from Famous Books

... happened with an unloaded camera in the automobile. I had tried desperately to adjust a new roll of film, but had given up in despair for it was difficult enough even to sit in the bounding car. Were I to spend the remainder of my life in Mongolia there might never be such ...

— Across Mongolian Plains - A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' • Roy Chapman Andrews

... The remainder of the sensory axons are branches of nerve cells that lie in little bunches close alongside the cord or {33} brain stem. These cells have no dendrites, but their axon, dividing, reaches in one direction out to a sense organ ...

— Psychology - A Study Of Mental Life • Robert S. Woodworth

... was in 1830 in no humor for any such gradual process of liberation from the old order of things as that which Goethe had followed. His counsel was for open war. Taking that terrible modern weapon, the pen, in his hand, he passed the remainder of his life in one fierce battle. What was that battle? the reader will ask. It was a life and death battle ...

— Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold

... had started, and close by the body of his victim. The sight horrified and bewildered him yet more, and he crept behind a low wall, resolved on remaining there till the tempest had at least partially subsided, and then fulfil the remainder of his instructions; knowing that to fail in any one point, would be the signal of his own destruction. Fortune, however, so far favored him, as to send the young English Senor to the very spot, and there was therefore no occasion for his further interference. He tarried till he had ...

— The Vale of Cedars • Grace Aguilar

... vessel in all directions as far south as he could reach, only pulling up when he touched ice. In whatever direction he advanced he failed to find any trace of extensive land corresponding to the supposed Antarctic continent, which he thus definitely proved to be non-existent. He spent the remainder of this voyage in rediscovering various sets of archipelagos which preceding Spanish, Dutch, and English navigators had touched, but had never accurately surveyed. Later on Cook made a run across the Pacific from New Zealand to Cape Horn without discovering ...

— The Story of Geographical Discovery - How the World Became Known • Joseph Jacobs

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