Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Remaining.
  • Additional; other: as, the moderator and remanent members of a church court.
  • noun The part remaining; remnant.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun That which remains; a remnant; a residue.
  • adjective Remaining; residual.
  • adjective (Physics) magnetism which remains in a body that has little coercive force after the magnetizing force is withdrawn, as soft iron; -- called also residual magnetism.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective remaining or persisting especially after an electrical or magnetic influence is removed

Etymologies

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From Latin remanens, present participle of remanere ("to remain").

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