remainder

Noun

• a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold

• the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend

• the part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor

• 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
    

Verb

• sell cheaply as remainders
  • The publisher remaindered the books
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  end , remnant , oddment , difference , balance , residual , residue , residuum , rest