Remainder vs Null - What's the difference?
remainder | null |
A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed.
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(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 .
(mathematics) The number left over after a simple subtraction
(commerce) Excessive stock items left unsold and subject to reduction in price.
(legal) An estate in expectancy which only comes in its heir's possession after an estate created by the same instrument has been determined
remaining
(commerce) To mark or declare items left unsold as subject to reduction in price.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between remainder and null
is that remainder is a part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective remainder
is remaining.As a verb remainder
is (commerce) to mark or declare items left unsold as subject to reduction in price.remainder
English
(wikipedia remainder)Alternative forms
* R (mathematics)Noun
(en noun)- ''My son ate part of his cake and I ate the remainder .
- ''You can have the remainder of my clothes.
- Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.
- ''17 leaves a remainder of 2 when divided by 3.
- ''11 divided by 2 is 5 remainder 1.
- ''10 minus 4 leaves a remainder of 6
- ''I got a really good price on this shirt because it was a remainder .
Synonyms
* (a part or parts remaining) remnant, residue, rest * surplusDerived terms
* remainderman * contingent remainderSee 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 * modulusSee also
* remaindermanAdjective
(-)Synonyms
* leftoverVerb
(en verb)- ''The bookstore remaindered the unsold copies of that book at the end of summer at a reduced price.
null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.