remainder
remainder is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Anything that remains, or is left, after the separation and removal of a part; residue; remnant. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. Anything that remains, or is left, after the separation and removal of a part; residue; remnant.
- noun. The quantity or sum that is left after subtraction, or after any deduction.
- noun. An estate in expectancy, generally in land, which becomes an estate in possession upon the determination of a particular prior estate, created at the same time, and by the same instrument; for example, if land be conveyed to A for life, and on his death to B, A's life interest is a particuar estate, and B's interest is a remainder, or estate in remainder.
- adjective. Remaining; left; left over; refuse.
- noun. a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- noun. the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend
- noun. the part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor
- noun. something left after other parts have been taken away
"there was no remainder"
"he threw away the rest"
- verb. sell cheaply as remainders
"The publisher remaindered the books"
Synonyms
end, oddment, remnant, difference, balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest
Common word forms
remainders, remaindered, remaindering
Words from these letters
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