The difference between Difference and Remainder

When used as nouns, difference means the quality of being different, whereas remainder means a part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed.

When used as verbs, difference means to distinguish or differentiate, whereas remainder means to mark or declare items left unsold as subject to reduction in price.

Remainder is also adjective with the meaning: remaining.

check bellow for the other definitions of Difference and Remainder

  1. Difference as a noun (uncountable):

    The quality of being different.

    Examples:

    "You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference."

    "ant identity sameness"

  2. Difference as a noun (countable):

    A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.

    Examples:

    "There are three differences between these two pictures."

  3. Difference as a noun (countable):

    A disagreement or argument.

    Examples:

    "We have our little differences, but we are firm friends."

  4. Difference as a noun (countable, uncountable):

    Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.

    Examples:

    "It just won't make much difference to me."

    "It just won't make much of a difference to anyone."

  5. Difference as a noun (countable):

    The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.

    Examples:

    "The difference between 3 and 21 is 18."

  6. Difference as a noun (obsolete):

    Choice; preference.

  7. Difference as a noun (heraldry):

    An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See and .

  8. Difference as a noun (logic):

    The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.

  9. Difference as a noun (logic circuits):

    A Boolean operation which is TRUE when the two input variables are different but is otherwise FALSE; the XOR operation (\scriptstyle A \overline B + \overline A B).

  10. Difference as a noun (relational algebra):

    the set of elements that are in one set but not another (\scriptstyle A \overline B).

  1. Difference as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To distinguish or differentiate.

    Examples:

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  1. Remainder as a noun:

    A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed.

    Examples:

    "My son ate part of his cake and I ate the remainder."

    "You can have the remainder of my clothes."

  2. Remainder as a noun (mathematics):

    The amount left over after subtracting the divisor as many times as possible from the dividend without producing a negative result. If (dividend) and d (divisor) are integers, then can always be expressed in the form n = dq + r, where q (quotient) and r (remainder) are also integers and 0 ≤ r < d.

    Examples:

    "17 leaves a remainder of 2 when divided by 3."

    "11 divided by 2 is 5 remainder 1."

  3. Remainder as a noun (mathematics):

    The number left over after a simple subtraction

    Examples:

    "10 minus 4 leaves a remainder of 6"

  4. Remainder as a noun (commerce):

    Excess stock items left unsold and subject to reduction in price.

    Examples:

    "I got a really good price on this shirt because it was a remainder."

  5. Remainder as a noun (legal):

    An estate in expectancy which only comes in its heir's possession after an estate created by the same instrument has been determined

  1. Remainder as an adjective:

    Remaining.

  1. Remainder as a verb (commerce):

    To mark or declare items left unsold as subject to reduction in price.

    Examples:

    "The bookstore remaindered the unsold copies of that book at the end of summer at a reduced price."

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