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remainder

In British aristocracy, term that denotes those who may inherit a peerage or baronetcy. The vast majority of peerages and baronetcies are limited to inheritance by the heirs male of the body of the first peer or baronet; the title cannot be inherited by a stepson or an adopted son. Special remainders are sometimes granted to others of the family (daughters, brothers or sisters, and the heirs male of their bodies), especially to military leaders (as was done for Nelson, Kitchener, Allenby, and Mountbatten).

remainder

Part left over when one number cannot be exactly divided by another. For example, the remainder of 11 divided by 3 is 2; the remainder may be represented as a fraction or decimal. Decimal remainders are either recurring (0.66666...), cyclic (0.37373737), or terminating (0.125).



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Two Thieves having stolen a Piano and being unable to divide it fairly without a remainder went to law about it and continued the contest as long as either one could steal a dollar to bribe the judge.
Fables by Aesop View in context
That very man whose judgment was so sound and accurate where merit was concerned - he who had swept into his coffers the inheritance of Nicholas Fouquet, who had robbed him of Lenotre and Lebrun, and had sent him to rot for the remainder of his life in one of the state prisons - merely remembered the peaches of that vanquished, crushed, forgotten enemy
The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
His tail shot suddenly erect and at the same instant the wary ape-man, knowing all too well what the signal portended, grasped the remainder of the deer's hind quarter between his teeth and leaped into a nearby tree as Numa charged him with all the speed and a sufficient semblance of the weight of an express train.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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