Etymology

From type +‎ castCategory:English compound terms#TYPECAST.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪp.kɑːst/Category:English 2-syllable words#TYPECASTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TYPECAST
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪp.kæst/Category:English 2-syllable words#TYPECASTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TYPECAST

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Noun

typecast (plural typecasts)Category:English lemmas#TYPECASTCategory:English nouns#TYPECASTCategory:English countable nouns#TYPECASTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TYPECASTCategory:Pages with entries#TYPECASTCategory:Pages with 1 entry#TYPECAST

1. (programmingCategory:en:Programming#TYPECAST) The modification of the data type of a variable or object.

Verb

typecast (third-person singular simple present typecasts, present participle typecasting, simple past and past participle typecast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) typecasted)Category:English lemmas#TYPECASTCategory:English verbs#TYPECASTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TYPECASTCategory:Pages with entries#TYPECASTCategory:Pages with 1 entry#TYPECAST

1. (actingCategory:en:Acting#TYPECAST) To cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly.
2. To identify one as being of a specific type because of one's appearance, colour, religion etc.
   • 2004 August 18, Leslie Feinberg, “Rights for lesbians, transgenders, transsexuals”, in Workers World‎:

     The vulgar anti-communist typecasting of Soviet women as so "mannish" that they might really be males in drag.

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3. (programmingCategory:en:Programming#TYPECAST) To cast (change of data type of a variable or object).

   Does anyone know how to typecast a String in Java into an int?Category:English terms with usage examples#TYPECAST

4. (printingCategory:en:Printing#TYPECAST, historicalCategory:English terms with historical senses#TYPECAST) 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 […]

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