different between multicart vs multicast

English

Etymology

multi- +? cart

Noun

multicart (plural multicarts)

1. (video games) A cartridge containing several separate games.
   • 2001, "Spud", FS/FT: Vectrex & Multicart! (on Internet newsgroup van.forsale)

     I have a Vectrex in great working shape along with a multicart that contains every game for the Vectrex except a couple of the lightpen games.

   • 2014, Rob Strangman, Memoirs of a Virtual Caveman (page 221)

     […] many of my friends also had their first on-hand experience of the game with this version, or via one of the numerous Famicom multicarts that inundated the black market […]

English

Etymology

multiple broadcast

Pronunciation

Adjective

multicast (not comparable)

1. (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.

Antonyms

• singlecast
• unicast

Noun

multicast (plural multicasts)

1. (computing) The simultaneous transmission of data to several destinations on a network.

Derived terms

• nonmulticast