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narrowcast

narrowcast verb: to transmit a programme to selected individuals or groups, especially via cable.

Verb

narrowcast (third-person singular simple present narrowcasts, present participle narrowcasting, simple past and past participle narrowcast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) narrowcasted)

  1. To transmit a programme to selected individuals or groups, especially via cable.
  2. To send out a message or disseminate information to a specific narrow audience rather than the general public.
    • As much as Israeli media outlets and politicians are narrowcasting their ideologies every day, Israel’s emerging blended society is on full display every night on prime-time TV — an ultra-Orthodox female celebrity chef on one channel, an Israeli Druze female celebrity chef on another, an Israeli...2023 June 6, Thomas L. Friedman, “From Tel Aviv to Riyadh”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  3. To transmit a medical intervention to a specific organ or type of tissue.
    • Cancer therapies can be narrowcasted to the unique genetic signature of a tumor instead of poisoning every dividing cell in the body.2018, Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, →ISBN

Noun

narrowcast (plural narrowcasts)

  1. A programme transmitted in this manner.

Forms of narrowcast

Verb
third-person singular presentnarrowcasts
present participlenarrowcasting
past participlenarrowcast
pastnarrowcast
past participle common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimesnarrowcasted
past common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimesnarrowcasted
Noun
pluralnarrowcasts

Origin of narrowcast

From narrow + -cast, by analogy with broadcast.

Words formed from narrowcast

Questions about narrowcast

What does narrowcast mean?
Narrowcast means to transmit a programme to selected individuals or groups, especially via cable.
What part of speech is narrowcast?
Narrowcast can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of narrowcast?
The past tense of narrowcast is narrowcast.

Words near narrowcast in the dictionary

  1. narrowboaters
  2. narrowboating
  3. narrowboats
  4. narrowbodies
  5. narrowbody
  6. narrowcast
  7. narrowcasted
  8. narrowcaster
  9. narrowcasters
  10. narrowcasting
  11. narrowcasts

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