6 example sentences using remainder.
Remainder used in a sentence
Remainder in a sentence as a noun
Large areas can be removed and the remainder will compensate.
Luckily, the owner is nice enough to let us stay for the remainder of our time without compensation.
At work last week, we were working on project euler at lunch, and had the one CS PhD in our midst not jumped up and explained the chinese remainder theorem to us, we wouldn't have had a chance.
Remainder in a sentence as a verb
Buffett is donating almost all his shares in annual chunks to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the remainder to a few, much smaller charitable foundations, so he will never personally cash out.
Don't want to publish information without unattributable sources, but -- the deal is in Washington that Obama gave his appointees until August 30th to decide whether or not they wanted to stay on through the remainder of his present term.
I am not a conservative, but the first paragraph really turned me off to reading the remainder of this article by asserting that "conservatives and chauvinists" tend to endorse the notion that there is an under-representation of women in management because "they are not capable.
Remainder definitions
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"
the part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor
the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend
See also: difference
a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
sell cheaply as remainders; "The publisher remaindered the books"