meaning of remote
1. Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.
2. Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses.
3. Not agreeing; alien; foreign.
4. Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.
5. Separate; abstracted.
6. Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.
7. Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
8. Separated by intervals greater than usual.
9. a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance; "he lost the remote for his
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