Cast
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Cast may refer to:
Arts
- Cast member, one of the performers in a play, movie, or other performing art form
- Cast (band), an English alternative rock band
- Cast (Mexican band), a progressive Mexican rock band
- Cast, a theatre venue in Doncaster, UK
Science and medicine
- Cast (earthworm), visible piles of mineral-rich organic matter excreted above ground by earthworms
- Cast of the eye, synonym for strabismus
- Cast (geology), in geology, archaeology or paleontology, a cavity formed by decomposition of biological remains or wood furnishings, that once were covered by volcanic ash or other casing material
- Type casting, in computer programming, is to change the interpretation of the bit pattern representing a value, from one data type to another
- Orthopedic cast, a protective shell to hold a limb in place, for example to help in healing broken bones
- Urinary cast, tubules found in urine
Technology
- Google Cast, a protocol built into the Google Chromecast and other embedded technologies
People
- P. C. Cast (born 1960), American romance/fantasy coauthor of the House of Night series with her daughter Kristin Cast
- Kristin Cast (born 1986), coauthor of the House of Night series with her mother P.C. Cast
Other uses
- Cast, the casting of magic spells
- Cast, in falconry, flying two or more falconry birds together
- Plaster cast, a copy made in plaster of another three-dimensional form, for example a sculpture
- Cast, in fishing, to cast a line refers to the act of throwing bait or a lure using a fishing line out over the water using a flexible fishing rod
- Cast, Finistère, a commune of the Finistère département, in France
- Cast (archery), the distance a bow can shoot its arrow
See also
- Caste, a form of social stratification characterized by endogamy
- Casting (disambiguation)
- CAST (disambiguation)
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