cast

cast

See casting, broadcast, unicast, multicast and anycast.

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cast

1. 

a. a throw at dice

b. the resulting number shown

2. Angling

a. a trace with a fly or flies attached

b. the act or an instance of casting

3. 

a. the actors in a play collectively

b. (as modifier): a cast list

4. 

a. an object made of metal, glass, etc., that has been shaped in a molten state by being poured or pressed into a mould

b. the mould used to shape such an object

5. a fixed twist or defect, esp in the eye

6. Surgery a rigid encircling casing, often made of plaster of Paris, for immobilizing broken bones while they heal

7. Pathol a mass of fatty, waxy, cellular, or other material formed in a diseased body cavity, passage, etc.

8. the act of casting a pack of hounds

9. Falconry a pair of falcons working in combination to pursue the same quarry

10. Archery the speed imparted to an arrow by a particular bow

11. a computation or calculation

12. Palaeontol a replica of an organic object made of nonorganic material, esp a lump of sediment that indicates the internal or external surface of a shell or skeleton

13. Palaeontol a sedimentary structure representing the infilling of a mark or depression in a soft layer of sediment (or bed)

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cast [kast]

(engineering)

To form a liquid or plastic substance into a fixed shape by letting it cool in the mold.

Any object which is formed by placing a castable substance in a mold or form and allowing it to solidify. Also known as casting.

(medicine)

A rigid dressing used to immobilize a part of the body.

strabismus

(navigation)

To turn a ship in its own water.

To turn a ship to a desired direction without gaining either headway or sternway.

To take a sounding with the lead.

(optics)

A change in a color because of the adding of a different hue.

(paleontology)

A fossil reproduction of a natural object formed by infiltration of a mold of the object by waterborne minerals.

(physiology)

A mass of fibrous material or exudate having the form of the body cavity in which it has been molded; classified from its source, such as bronchial, renal, or tracheal.

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