departure vs remainder

departure

noun
  • The act of departing or something that has departed. 

  • A deviation from a plan or procedure. 

  • There are several significant departures, however, from current practice. 

  • The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian. 

  • The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve. 

  • The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another 

  • A death. 

remainder

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

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

  • 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. 

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

  • The number left over after a simple subtraction 

adj
  • Remaining. 

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

How often have the words departure and remainder occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )