different between broadcast vs multicast
broadcast
English
Etymology
broad +? cast.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b???dk??st/, /-kæst/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b??dkæst/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /?b??dkæst/
- (US)
- (California)
- Hyphenation: broad?cast
Adjective
broadcast (comparative more broadcast, superlative most broadcast)
- Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad.
- Communicated, signalled, or transmitted through radio waves or electronic means.
- Relating to transmissions of messages or signals through radio waves or electronic means.
Synonyms
- widespread
Translations
Adverb
broadcast (comparative more broadcast, superlative most broadcast)
- Widely in all directions; abroad.
- (agriculture, horticulture, archaic) By having its seeds sown over a wide area.
Noun
broadcast (plural broadcasts)
- A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.
- 1961 May 9, Newton Minow, "Television and the Public Interest":
- No one knows how long it will be until a broadcast from a studio in New York will be viewed in India as well as in Indiana, will be seen in the Congo as it is seen in Chicago. But as surely as we are meeting here today, that day will come; and once again our world will shrink.
- 1961 May 9, Newton Minow, "Television and the Public Interest":
- A programme (bulletin, documentary, show, etc.) so transmitted.
- Antonym: narrowcast
- (agriculture, horticulture, archaic) The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
broadcast (third-person singular simple present broadcasts, present participle broadcasting, simple past and past participle broadcast or broadcasted)
- (transitive) To transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means.
- Synonyms: air, transmit
- Antonym: narrowcast
- (transitive) To transmit a message over a wide area; specifically, to send an email in a single transmission to a (typically large) number of people.
- (intransitive) To appear as a performer, presenter, or speaker in a broadcast programme.
- (transitive, agriculture, horticulture, archaic) To sow seeds over a wide area.
Usage notes
The past of broadcast is either broadcast or broadcasted. Both are in use, but broadcast is much more common, especially in the simple past but also as past participle. As of 2019, Google Books search gives 326,000 results for "was broadcast", vs. 12,900 for "was broadcasted".
Derived terms
Translations
Hypernyms
- cast
References
- broadcast in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- broadcast in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Further reading
- broadcast (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- bad actors
broadcast From the web:
- what broadcasts in 4k
- what broadcast channels are available in my area
- what broadcast channels can i get
- what broadcast means
- what broadcasts in 8k
- what broadcast channel is fox
- what broadcast channel is nbc
- what broadcast channel is cbs
multicast
English
Etymology
multiple broadcast
Pronunciation
Adjective
multicast (not comparable)
- (programming, of a delegate) Having multiple targets, such that a call to the delegate triggers a call to each target.
- 2005, Jesse Liberty, Programming C#: Building .NET Applications with C#
- The result is a new multicast delegate that invokes both of the original implementing methods.
- 2005, Jesse Liberty, Programming C#: Building .NET Applications with C#
Antonyms
- singlecast
- unicast
Noun
multicast (plural multicasts)
- (computing) The simultaneous transmission of data to several destinations on a network.
Derived terms
- nonmulticast
multicast From the web:
- what multicast address should i use
- what multicast rate should i use
- what multicast addresses are used by ospf
- how to use multicast address
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