REMOTELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does remotely mean? 

• REMOTELY (adverb)
  The adverb REMOTELY has 2 senses:

1. in a remote manner

2. to a remote degree

  Familiarity information: REMOTELY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REMOTELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a remote manner

Context example:

when the measured speech of the chorus passes over into song the tones are, remotely but unmistakably, those taught by the orthodox liturgy

Sense 2

Meaning:

To a remote degree

Context example:

it is remotely possible

Pertainym:

remote (very unlikely)

 Context examples 

They were sounds not made by his mate, and yet they were remotely familiar.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I have begun to fear, remotely, that the day may never shine, when I shall see my child-wife running in the sunlight with her old friend Jip.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Additionally, the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Deep Discoverer surveyed biological communities in the area.

(Deep Discoverer Discovers a Very Deep, Ghostlike Octopod, NOAA)

In fact, nothing, no matter how remotely eatable, had escaped them.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It will be able to identify species from imagery and sound and use satellites to send real-time data remotely to researchers.

(Amazon jungle animals to be monitored by sensors, Agência Brasil)

By engineering the properties of the material, we can control the soft robot's movement remotely; we can get it to hold a given shape; we can then return the robot to its original shape or further modify its movement; and we can do this repeatedly.

(Technique uses magnets, light to control and reconfigure soft robots, National Science Foundation)

I am extremely sorry, my dear Emma, said Mr. Micawber, relenting, to have been betrayed into any expressions that might, even remotely, have the appearance of being strong expressions.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When morning came and a dim light pervaded the lair, he again sought after the source of the remotely familiar sounds.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Researchers from North Carolina State and Elon Universities have developed a technique that allows them to remotely control the movement of soft robots, lock them into position for as long as needed and later reconfigure the robots into new shapes.

(Technique uses magnets, light to control and reconfigure soft robots, National Science Foundation)

It was what I remotely dreaded when I was first impelled to stay away from England.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)