Remote

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Located far away; distant in space.
  • adjective. Hidden away; secluded.
  • adjective. Distant in time.
  • adjective. Faint; slight.
  • adjective. Far removed in connection or relevance.
  • adjective. Distantly related by blood or marriage.
  • adjective. Distant in manner; aloof.
  • adjective. Operating or controlled from a distance.
  • adjective. Located at a distance from another computer that is accessible by cables or other communications links.
  • noun. A radio or television broadcast originating from a point outside a studio.
  • noun. A remote control device.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Specifically in mycology, separated by a space, as the gills of certain fungi which do not extend quite to the stem.
  • Distant in place; not near; far removed: as, a remote country; a remote people.
  • Distant or far away, in any sense.
  • Mediate; by intervention of something else; not proximate.
  • Alien; foreign; not agreeing: as, a proposition remote from reason.
  • Separated; abstracted.
  • Distant in consanguinity or affinity: as, a remote kinsman.
  • Slight; inconsiderable; not closely connected; having slight relation: as, a remote analogy between cases; a remote resemblance in form or color; specifically, in the law of evidence, having too slight a bearing upon the question in controversy to afford any ground for inference.
  • In music, having but slight relation. See relation, 8.
  • In zoology and botany, distant from one another; few or sparse, as spots on a surface, etc.
  • In logic:
  • The terms of a syllogism, as contradistinguished from the propositions, which latter are the immediate matter.
  • Terms of a proposition which are of such a nature that it is impossible that one should be true of the other.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place
  • adjective. Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses.
  • adjective. Not agreeing; alien; foreign.
  • adjective. Not nearly related; not close.
  • adjective. Separate; abstracted.
  • adjective. Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.
  • adjective. Not obvious or sriking.
  • adjective. Separated by intervals greater than usual.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. At a distance; disconnected.
  • adjective. Distant or otherwise inaccessible.
  • adjective. Unlikely.
  • adjective. Emotionally detached.
  • noun. Short for remote control.
  • noun. An element of broadcast programming originating away from the station's or show's control room.
  • verb. To connect to a computer from a remote location.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance
  • adjective. located far away spatially
  • adjective. inaccessible and sparsely populated
  • adjective. separate or apart in time
  • adjective. very unlikely
  • adjective. far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship
  • Word Usage
    "Firstly go into the top level folder for your repository clone and pull down a local copy of all of the remote branches: for remote in ` git branch - r `; do git branch -- track $remote; done"
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