Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

remote procedure call

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.11 in modern English

Syllables: re-mote pro-ce-dure -call
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A technology that allows a computer program to cause a subroutine or procedure to execute in another address space, commonly on another computer on a shared network, without the programmer explicitly coding the details for this remote interaction.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

remote procedure calls (plural)

Synonyms

remote method invocation

Questions

What does remote procedure call mean?: A technology that allows a computer program to cause a subroutine or procedure to execute in another address space, commonly on another computer on a shared network, without the programmer explicitly coding the details for this remote interaction.

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