Cast

Cast may refer to:

Education

• Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology

Music

• Cast (band), an English alternative rock band
• Cast (Mexican band), 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

• Casting (metalworking)
  • Cast iron, a group of iron-carbon alloys
• Cast (geology), 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
• Cast of the eye, a condition in which the eyes do not properly align with each other when looking at an object
• Orthopedic cast, a protective shell to hold a limb in place, for example to help in healing broken bones
• Cast (computer science), to change the interpretation of a bit pattern from one data type to another in computer programming
• Urinary cast, tubules found in urine
• Google Cast, a protocol built into the Google Chromecast and other embedded technologies
• Game cast of a video game

Sports

• Cast (archery), the distance a bow can shoot its arrow
• Cast, in falconry, 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

• Cast member, one of the performers in a play, movie, or other performing art form
• Cast, the casting of a magic spell
• Don cast, an Indonesia talk show on Nusantara TV
• Plaster cast, a copy made in plaster of another three-dimensional form, such as a sculpture
• Cast, Finistère, a commune of the Finistère département, France
• Cast, a theatre venue in Doncaster, UK

People with the name

• Alice Cast (born 1900), British sprinter
• Kristin Cast (born 1986), coauthor of the House of Night series with her mother P.C. Cast
• P. C. Cast (born 1960), American romance/fantasy coauthor of the House of Night series with her daughter Kristin Cast

See also

• CAST (disambiguation)
• Caste (disambiguation)
• Casting (disambiguation)
• Hard cast (disambiguation)
• The die is cast (Latin: Alea iacta est)
• "The Die Is Cast" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine