Remainder is the amount "left over" when dividing two integers. Remainder may also refer to: Remaindered book, a publisher liquidating the remaining unsold copies of a book Remainder (law), in property law, a future interest created in a transferee Remainder term, in mathematics, when approximating a value by a series, is the error (the amount "left over") of an approximation, such that true value = series approximation + remainder term Remainder (novel), a novel by Tom McCarthy Remainder (film), a 2015 British film, based on the novel In remainder, relative to an aristocratic title, is being capable of inheriting it.