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Plural of remainder

regular plural

The plural of remainder is remainders.

Forms of remainder

Singularremainder /ɹɪˈmeɪndə/
Pluralremainders
Countablecountable

Remainders in a sentence

  • The Fourth Army suffered such losses that its remainders were merged into the Second Army, also deployed on the Western front.From the entry army
  • When they are eating the remainders of their dead fathers, the girls perform all the elements of a necrophagic ritual.2012, Gabriele Schwab, Imaginary Ethnographies. From the entry necrophagic

Meaning of remainder

  1. noun A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed or already occurred.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun The number left over after a simple subtraction.

Full definition of remainder

Questions about the plural of remainder

What is the plural of remainder?
The plural of remainder is remainders.
Is remainder countable?
Remainder is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: remainder (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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