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Remote
Definitions
- 1 At a distance; disconnected.
"A remote operator may control the vehicle with a wireless handset."
- 2 Distant or otherwise inaccessible.
"After his fall from the emperor's favor, the general was posted to a remote outpost."
- 3 Slight. especially
"There was only a remote possibility that we would be rescued as we were far outside of the regular shipping lanes."
- 4 Emotionally detached.
"After her mother's death, my friend grew remote for a time while she dealt with her grief."
- 1 inaccessible and sparsely populated wordnet
- 2 located far away spatially wordnet
- 3 separate or apart in time wordnet
- 4 far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship wordnet
- 5 unlikely to occur wordnet
- 1 Ellipsis of remote control. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
"I hate it when my uncle comes over to visit; he always sits in the best chair and hogs the remote."
- 2 a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance wordnet
- 3 An element of broadcast programming originating away from the station's or show's control room.
- 4 A source control repository hosted on a remote machine, rather than locally.
- 1 To connect to a computer from a remote location.
- 2 to remove (from something or someone)
"These requirements are applicable whether you are remoting into a server or locally executing SharePoint cmdlets."
Etymology
From Middle English remote, from Old French remot, masculine, remote, feminine, from Latin remotus, past participle of removere (“to remove”), from re- + movere (“to move”).
From Middle English remote, from Old French remot, masculine, remote, feminine, from Latin remotus, past participle of removere (“to remove”), from re- + movere (“to move”).
From Middle English remote, from Old French remot, masculine, remote, feminine, from Latin remotus, past participle of removere (“to remove”), from re- + movere (“to move”).
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