Cast may refer to:
Music
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Cast (band), an English alternative rock band
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Cast (Mexican band)
Cast is a rock band from Mexico. Formed in 1978, they specialize in progressive rock, similar in style to early Genesis. Their music focuses strongly on keyboards, guitars and vocals. The band host an annual progressive rock festival called Baja ...
, a progressive Mexican rock band
* The Cast, a Scottish musical duo:
Mairi Campbell 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
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Urinary cast, tubules found in urine
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Google Cast, a protocol built into the Google Chromecast and other embedded technologies
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Game cast
The live streaming of video games is an activity where people broadcast themselves playing games to a live audience online. The practice became popular in the mid-2010s on the US-based site Twitch, before growing to YouTube, Facebook, China-bas ...
of a video game
Sports
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Cast (archery), the distance a bow can shoot its arrow
* Cast, in
falconry
Falconry is the hunting of wild animals in their natural state and habitat by means of a trained bird of prey. Small animals are hunted; squirrels and rabbits often fall prey to these birds. Two traditional terms are used to describe a person ...
, 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
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Cast member, one of the performers in a play, movie, or other performing art form
* Cast, the casting of a
magic spell
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Plaster cast
A plaster cast is a copy made in plaster of another 3-dimensional form. The original from which the cast is taken may be a sculpture, building, a face, a pregnant belly, a fossil or other remains such as fresh or fossilised footprints – p ...
, a copy made in plaster of another three-dimensional form, such as a sculpture
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Cast, Finistère, a commune of the Finistère ''département'', France
* Cast, a theatre venue in
Doncaster, UK
People with the name
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Kristin Cast
Kristin F. Cast (born November 4, 1986) is an American author of young adult books. She is the editor for the ''House of Night'' series for young adults with her mother, P.C. Cast, and the author of ''The Escaped'' series.
Life and career
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(born 1986), coauthor of the ''House of Night'' series with her mother P.C. Cast
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P. C. Cast
Phyllis Christine Cast (born April 30, 1960) is an American romance/fantasy author, known for the '' House of Night'' series she writes and her daughter Kristin Cast edits, as well as her own ''Goddess Summoning'' and ''Partholon'' book series.C ...
(born 1960), American romance/fantasy coauthor of the ''House of Night'' series with her daughter Kristin Cast
See also
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CAST (disambiguation)
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Caste (disambiguation)
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Casting (disambiguation)
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The die is cast
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...
(Latin: ''Alea iacta est'')
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"The Die Is Cast" (''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''), an episode of ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''
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