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US
/ɹiˈmeɪndɝ, ɹɪˈmeɪndɝ/
]
[ UK /ɹɪmˈeɪndɐ/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪmˈeɪndɐ/ ]
NOUN
- the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend
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something left after other parts have been taken away
he threw away the rest
he took what he wanted and I got the balance
there was no remainder - a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- the part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor
VERB
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sell cheaply as remainders
The publisher remaindered the books
How To Use remainder In A Sentence
- To avoid leaving the center posts in the permanent work, two rows of temporary posts were placed, as shown by Fig. 1, Plate LX, the center wall and skewback were built, and the posts were removed, as shown by Fig. 2, Plate LX, before placing the remainder of the lining. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158
- If you were to take out two or three shrubs to let the remainder breathe, what sort of rhythm would be left? Times, Sunday Times
- Ethnic Burmese form the majority at 67.4%, and the remainder includes the Shans, Rakhines, Mons, Chins, Kachins and the Kayahs.
- The remainder came from other disciplines, with general surgery making up 26%.
- The retest could be the low for the remainder of the year. Safehaven
- President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is aiming for annual average GDP growth of 6.6 percent through the remainder of his term ending in 2014, partly by boosting spending on roads, railways and ports. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
- Slice the remainder in half lengthways and then into short fingers. Times, Sunday Times
- Don't think you can blame them for seizing contol except I do not think you can blame them for being tired of being used by the remainder of the Republican Party in the North and West for 40 years. Vitter defends Southern influence in GOP, slams Voinovich
- Each Land was allotted one representative per 750,000 of population with an additional member for each remainder over 200,000.
- But to continue our overview: the remainder of book II (from chapter 5 on) discusses the causes of the embryological development of vivipara, while the ovipara are the primary focus in book III, which closes with a discussion of animals that are not sexually generated, including those that arise ˜spontaneously.™ Aristotle's Biology