Cast may refer to:
Music
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Cast (band), an English alternative rock band
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Cast (Mexican band), a progressive Mexican rock band
* The Cast, a Scottish musical duo:
Mairi Campbell
Mairi Campbell (born 1965) is a Scottish folk singer and musician. Campbell's songs and music have a rooted and powerful quality that range from the everyday to the universal, both in sound and subject matter.
Campbell has been much praised for ...
and Dave Francis
* ''Cast'', a 2012 album by
Trespassers William
* ''Cast'', a 2018 album by
KAT-TUN
Science and technology
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Casting (metalworking)
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Cast iron, a group of iron-carbon alloys
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Cast (geology)
A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in ...
, a cavity formed by decomposition that once were covered by a casing material
* Cast, visible piles of mineral-rich organic matter excreted above ground by
earthworms
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Cast of the eye
Strabismus is a vision disorder in which the eyes do not properly align with each other when looking at an object. The eye that is focused on an object can alternate. The condition may be present occasionally or constantly. If present during a ...
, a condition in which the eyes do not properly align with each other when looking at an object
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Orthopedic cast, a protective shell to hold a limb in place, for example to help in healing broken bones
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Cast (computer science)
In computer science, type conversion, type casting, type coercion, and type juggling are different ways of changing an expression from one data type to another. An example would be the conversion of an integer value into a floating point value ...
, to change the interpretation of a bit pattern from one data type to another in computer programming
* Urinary cast, tubules found in urine
* Google Cast, a protocol built into the Google Chromecast and other embedded technologies
* Game cast of a video game
Sports
* Cast (archery), the distance a bow can shoot its arrow
* Cast, in falconry, to fly two or more falconry birds together
* 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
Other uses
* Cast member, one of the performers in a play, movie, or other performing art form
* Cast, the casting of a magic spell
* Plaster cast, a copy made in plaster of another three-dimensional form, such as a sculpture
* Cast, Finistère, a commune of the Finistère ''département'', France
* Cast, a theatre venue in Doncaster#Theatre and cinemas, Doncaster, UK
People with the name
* Kristin Cast (born 1986), coauthor of the ''House of Night'' series with her mother P.C. Cast
* P. C. Cast (born 1960), American romance/fantasy coauthor of the ''House of Night'' series with her daughter Kristin Cast
See also
* CAST (disambiguation)
* Caste (disambiguation)
* Casting (disambiguation)
* The die is cast (Latin: ''Alea iacta est'')
* The Die Is Cast (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), "The Die Is Cast" (''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''), an episode of ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''
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