Remote
1. Operating or controlled from a distance. The remote sensors notified us of
intruders.
2. Located far away; distance in space. Hidden away; secluded. They lived in a
remote village.
3. Distant in time. It happened in the remote past.
4. Faint; slight. It is a remote possibility of that happening.
5. A radio or television broadcast originating from a point outside the
studio. The interview was televised remote.
6. Distantly related by blood or marriage. She was a remote cousin of my mother.
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