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remote
Refers to any entity (user, machine, facility) in a different geographic location. Contrast with local.
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At their hospitable boards I occasionally met with partners, and clerks, and hardy fur traders from the interior posts; men who had passed years remote from civilized society, among distant and savage tribes, and who had wonders to recount of their wide and wild peregrinations, their hunting exploits, and their perilous adventures and hair-breadth escapes among the Indians.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
And invisible to me because it was so remote and small, flying swiftly and steadily towards me across that incredible distance, drawing nearer every min- ute by so many thousands of miles, came the Thing they were sending us, the Thing that was to bring so much struggle and calamity and death to the earth.
The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context
It dated back to our remote ancestors who lived in trees.
Before Adam by London, Jack View in context
 
 
 
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