# remote

Pronunciation: say "ri-MOHT" US /ɹɪˈmoʊt/, UK /ɹɪˈməʊt/

## Adjective

1. Far away in space, or otherwise difficult to reach.
   - Simple: Far away and hard to get to.
   - _The expedition spent weeks crossing some of the most remote terrain on the continent._
   - _Supplies are flown in because the outpost is too remote for trucks._
2. Set at a distance and separated from what surrounds it.
   - Simple: Far apart from other things and not joined to them.
   - _Their farm lies remote from the nearest town, with miles of empty road between._
   - _The two events are remote from each other in time, separated by nearly a century._
4. Very slight; faint or only barely possible.
   - Simple: Very small in amount or chance.
   - _The doctors said the risk of complications was remote._
   - _There remains a remote possibility that the original document still survives._
5. Emotionally distant; cool and not engaged with the people around one.
   - Simple: Cold and not showing feelings toward other people.
   - _The manager stayed remote with his staff, rarely sharing anything personal._
   - _After the loss she grew remote, withdrawing from even her closest friends._

## Noun

3. Short form of remote control. — Ellipsis of remote control.
   - Simple: Short form of remote control. The small device you hold to control a TV from your seat.
   - _The remote needs new batteries again._
   - _She pointed the remote at the screen and hit mute._
6. A piece of broadcast programming that originates away from the station's or show's control room.
   - Simple: A part of a show that comes from outside the studio.
   - _The station scheduled a remote from the festival grounds for Saturday night._
   - _Engineers ran cables for the remote along the parade route._
8. A version-control repository hosted on another machine rather than on your local computer.
   - Simple: A copy of a code project stored on another computer, not your own.
   - _She pushed the latest commits to the remote before logging off._
   - _The team keeps a backup remote on a separate server in another region._

## Verb

7. To connect to a computer from a distant location, typically over a network.
   - Simple: To connect to a computer from far away over a network.
   - _Technicians remote into the system overnight to apply patches._
   - _She remoted into the lab computer to run the analysis from home._

## Other meanings

- (verb) to remove (from something or someone)

## Origin

From Middle English remote, from Old French remot, from Latin remotus, the past participle of removere ("to remove"), which combines re- with movere ("to move").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/remote (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).