| Pronunciation: | | ri'mowt
|
| | Sponsored Links: | |
|
| |
| Matching Terms: | | remote access services, remote brachytherapy, remote control, remote database access, remote echo, remote job entry, remote login, remote method invocation, remote operations service element, remote procedure call, remote reference layer, remote sensing, remote spooling communication subsystem, remote station, remote terminal, remote write protocol, remote-access data processing, remote-controlled, remotely, remoteness, remotion
|
 WordNet Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | |
- [n] a device used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance; "he lost the remote for his TV"
- [adj] inaccessible and sparsely populated
- [adj] far distant in space; "distant lands"; "remote stars"; "a remote outpost of civilization"; "a hideaway far removed from towns and cities"
- [adj] far distant in time; "distant events"; "the remote past or future"; "a civilization ten centuries removed from modern times"
- [adj] far apart in nature; "considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics"
- [adj] very unlikely; "outside chance"; "remote possibility"
|
| |
| | Synonyms: | | backwoods(a), distant, far, inaccessible, outback(a), outside, remote control, removed, removed(p), unaccessible, unlikely |
| |
| | See Also: | | device |
|
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | | \Re*mote"\ (r?-m?t"), a. [Compar. {Remoter} (-?r);
superl. {Remotest}.] [L. remotus, p. p. of removere to
remove. See {Remove}.]
1. Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; --
said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages;
remote lands.
Places remote enough are in Bohemia. --Shak.
Remote from men, with God he passed his days.
--Parnell.
2. Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related;
-- in various figurative uses. Specifically:
(a) Not agreeing; alien; foreign. ``All these
propositions, how remote soever from reason.''
--Locke.
(b) Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection
or consanguinity.
(c) Separate; abstracted. ``Wherever the mind places
itself by any thought, either amongst, or remote from,
all bodies.'' --Locke.
(d) Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.
``From the effect to the remotest cause.''
--Granville.
(e) Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
3. (Bot.) Separated by intervals greater than usual. --
{Re*mote"ly}, adv. -- {Re*mote"ness}, n.
|
| |
| Biology Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | | Separated from one another; separated by intervals or spaces greater than the ordinary. |
| |