Definition of: remote

(ri·mōt′) adjective
1. Located far from a specified place or some place regarded as a point of reference: remote regions.
2. Removed far from present time; distant in time: the remote future.
3. Having slight relation or connection; separated; foreign; distant in relation: a remote cause, remote kinship.
4. Not obvious; inconsiderable; slight: a remote likeness or analogy.
5. Abstracted; absent–minded; hence, aloof.
—noun A television or radio broadcast made from a mobile camera or microphone operated at a distance from the station, and sent to the transmitter by cable or through relay towers. See synonyms under ALIEN. [<L remotus, pp. of removere remove <re- again + movere move]
—re·mote′ly adverb
—re·mote′ness noun