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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtaɪp.kɑːst/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈtaɪp.kæst/
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Verb
typecast (third-person singular simple present typecasts, present participle typecasting, simple past and past participle typecast or typecasted)
- (acting) To cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly.
- To identify one as being of a specific type because of one's appearance, colour, religion etc.
- (programming) To cast (change of data type of a variable or object).
- Does anyone know how to typecast a String in Java into an int?
- (printing, historical) To found type in a mold.
- 1967, “Inland Printer, American Lithographer”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 159, part 2, page 116:
- Duensing has elected to resuscitate and typecast faces that in the main might be termed scholarly in nature […]
Translations
to cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly
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to identify someone as being of a specific type
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to change an entity of one datatype into another
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Noun
typecast (plural typecasts)
- (programming) The changing of the data type of a variable or object.
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