remote
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
remote/rɪˈməʊt/
▶adjective (remoter, remotest)
- 1 far away in space or time.
■ situated far from the main centres of population.
- 2 having very little connection with.
■ distantly related.
- 3 (of a chance or possibility) unlikely to occur.
- 4 aloof and unfriendly in manner.
- 5 Computing denoting a device which can only be accessed by means of a network. Compare with local.
– derivatives
remotely adverb,
remoteness noun.
remotely adverb,
remoteness noun.
'remote' also found in these Oxford entries:
ancestor
- back
- backblocks
- backveld
- backwoods
- Barcoo
- bomb
- booay
- channel-hop
- corner
- dark
- desert island
- deviate
- devious
- distance
- distant
- downstate
- droid
- drone
- faceless
- fantastic
- faraway
- far-flung
- far-off
- flying doctor
- further
- gravitational lens
- guide
- high
- hinterland
- isolated
- jerkwater
- lone
- lonely
- map
- missile
- nowhere
- outback
- outlying
- outport
- outpost
- outside
- platteland
- Pluto
- quasar
- recess
- remote control
- remote sensing
- star
