remoting

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of remote.

   She spent the morning remoting into the lab machines to track down a bug.

   Remoting into the server let him restart the service without driving to the office.

   Note

   Spelled with the final e of remote dropped, this form carries two quite different meanings from its verb. One is the everyday computing meaning, connecting to a machine from somewhere else. The other is a rarer meaning, removing something from someone. As a gerund it can look identical to the programming technology. The gerund names a person's act of connecting, while the noun names the software that lets programs reach one another.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   A technology that lets a program interact with the internal workings of another program running on a separate machine.

   Like reaching through a phone line to operate the controls of a machine in another city.

   The team relied on remoting to call methods on objects hosted by a server in another data center.

   Debugging through remoting let developers inspect the internal state of the remote process.

   Note

   A programmer's word, built from remote + -ing, that names a whole layer of software rather than an action. It is uncountable and most often modifies another noun: remoting infrastructure, remoting styles, remoting mechanisms. C# Essentials (2002) and Remoting Patterns (2004) both use it this way. Keep it apart from the verb form, where a person is connecting to a machine. Here no one connects; one program reaches into another.

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