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multicastings

multicastings is the plural of multicasting.

Meaning of multicasting

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

Questions about multicastings

What is multicastings the plural of?
Multicastings is the plural of multicasting.

Words near multicastings in the dictionary

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

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