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multicasting

multicasting noun: the simultaneous transmission of data to several destinations on a network.

Noun

multicasting (countable and uncountable, plural multicastings)

  1. The simultaneous transmission of data to several destinations on a network.
    • Unlike broadcasting, multicasting allows each host to choose whether it wants to accept multicast packets.2009, Robert Rümmler, Alexander Daniel Gluhak, Hamid Aghvami, Multicast in Third-Generation Mobile Networks: Services, Mechanisms and Performance, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 14

Forms of multicasting

pluralmulticastings

Origin of multicasting

Blend of multiple + broadcasting.

Questions about multicasting

What does multicasting mean?
Multicasting means the simultaneous transmission of data to several destinations on a network.
What part of speech is multicasting?
Multicasting is a noun.
What is the plural of multicasting?
The plural of multicasting is multicastings.

Words near multicasting in the dictionary

  1. multicase
  2. multicaspase
  3. multicaspases
  4. multicast
  5. multicasted
  6. multicasting
  7. multicastings
  8. multicasts
  9. multicat
  10. multicatalytic
  11. multicategorical

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