Casting (disambiguation)
Casting is a manufacturing process using a fluid medium in a mould, so as to produce a casting.
 |
Look up casting in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Casting may also refer to:
Creating a mold
- Casting (metalworking), forming an object within a mold using molten metal
- Casting, forming a protective orthopedic cast
- Casting, a process in sculpture of converting plastic materials into more solid form
Science and healthcare
- Casting (falconry), anything given to a hawk to purge and cleanse its gorge
- Casting, excretions from an earthworm
- Casting, moulting or shedding of hair in most breeds of dog and other mammals
- Casting, forming a protective orthopedic cast
Other uses
- Casting (fishing), the process of propelling a lure to catch fish
- Casting (performing arts), the process of selecting a cast of actors, or other visual talent such as models for a photo shoot
- Casting or footing, in bookkeeping, a method of summing a table of numbers by column
- Casting, to distribute a stream of data, images, sound, or voice, as in
- Casting, incantation of magical spells
- Casting, type conversion in computer programming
- Casting, propelling, as in casting off a boat or launching a rocket
gollark: I mean, if they got them for free for some unfathomable reason, sure I guess?
gollark: > How is it wastefulMacBooks are very expensive and not particularly worth it.
gollark: How wasteful.
gollark: Or, well, the obvious alternative.
gollark: Maybe. On the one hand I at least like to think I'm vaguely better than average at actually paying attention to explanations for things and won't just immediately consign them to "outgroup → bad" or "not convention → bad". On the other hand probably most people think that since people are bad at comparing things. On the third hand, which I totally have, the alternative is to just assume people doing things are probably right, which seems wrong.
See also
- Cast (disambiguation)
- Castang (disambiguation)
- Castaing, a surname
- Caster (disambiguation)
- Recast (disambiguation)
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.