remote procedure call (English, noun)
expansion: remote procedure call (countable and uncountable, plural remote procedure calls)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: 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.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: remote procedure calls
tags: plural