different between remainder vs overplus
remainder
English
Alternative forms
- remainer (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English remaindre, remeigner, from Anglo-Norman remaindre, with infinitive used as noun.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???me?nd?/, /???me?nd?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???me?nd?/
- Rhymes: -e?nd?(?)
Noun
remainder (plural remainders)
- A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed.
- My son ate part of his cake and I ate the remainder.
- You can have the remainder of my clothes.
- (mathematics) The amount left over after subtracting the divisor as many times as possible from the dividend without producing a negative result. If n (dividend) and d (divisor) are integers, then n can always be expressed in the form n = dq + r, where q (quotient) and r (remainder) are also integers and 0 ? r < d.
- 17 leaves a remainder of 2 when divided by 3.
- 11 divided by 2 is 5 remainder 1.
- (mathematics) The number left over after a simple subtraction
- 10 minus 4 leaves a remainder of 6
- (commerce) Excess stock items left unsold and subject to reduction in price.
- I got a really good price on this shirt because it was a remainder.
- (law) An estate in expectancy which only comes in its heir's possession after an estate created by the same instrument has been determined
Synonyms
- (a part or parts remaining): remnant, residue, rest, lave; See also Thesaurus:remainder
- surplus
Antonyms
- (a part or parts remaining): dearth, deficiency, deficit, shortage, undersupply
Derived terms
- R (mathematics)
- remainderman
- contingent remainder
See also
- addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) × (summand) = (sum, total)
- subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference)
- multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product)
- division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend
- modulus
Translations
See also
- remainderman
Adjective
remainder (not comparable)
- Remaining.
Synonyms
- leftover
Translations
Verb
remainder (third-person singular simple present remainders, present participle remaindering, simple past and past participle remaindered)
- (transitive, commerce) To mark or declare items left unsold as subject to reduction in price.
- The bookstore remaindered the unsold copies of that book at the end of summer.
Translations
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English remainder.
Noun
remainder m (invariable)
- A remainder, (book) sold at reduced price
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overplus
English
Etymology
From over- + Anglo-Norman plus, Middle French plus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???v?pl?s/
Noun
overplus (countable and uncountable, plural overpluses or overplusses)
- That which remains beyond what is necessary or required; a surplus.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXXXV:
- Thou hast thy Will, And Will too boote, and Will in ouer-plus.
- 1793, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 262:
- I proposed that the two referees should retire and consider for themselves how much should be allowed for the boy's board and lodging, deducting at the rate of sixpence a day for what advantage was gained by his going on errands; and that the overplus should be restored.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXXXV:
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