remainder

Nouns

  • (n) something left after other parts have been taken away
    • there was no remainder
    • he threw away the rest
    • he took what he wanted and I got the balance
    residual, residuum, rest, residue, balance,
  • (n) the part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor
  • (n) the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend difference,
  • (n) a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold oddment, remnant, end,

Verbs

  • (v) sell cheaply as remainders
    • The publisher remaindered the books

Synonyms

residual residuum rest residue balance difference oddment remnant end

Words of close approximity