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unicast

unicast adjective: being the transmission of messages to a single destination host on a packet switching network.

Adjective

unicast (not comparable)

  1. Being the transmission of messages to a single destination host on a packet switching network.
    • In this paper, we describe a model of multicast service we call host groups and propose this model as a way to support multicast in the DARPA Internet environment [14]. We argue that it is feasible to implement this facility as an extension of the existing "unicast" IP datagram model and mechanism.1985 December, S. E. Deering, D. R. Cheriton, “Host Groups: A Multicast Extension to the Internet Protocol”, in Internet Engineering Task Force Request for Comments number 966, archived from the...
  2. Synonym of singlecast.
    Synonyms:
    singlecast

Verb

unicast (third-person singular simple present unicasts, present participle unicasting, simple past and past participle unicast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) unicasted)

  1. To transmit in this manner.

unicast meaning in Bengali

unicast in Bengali

এই পদ্ধতিতে প্রেরণ করা

Synonyms of unicast

Forms of unicast

third-person singular presentunicasts
present participleunicasting
past participleunicast
pastunicast
past participle common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimesunicasted
past common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimesunicasted

Origin of unicast

From uni- + broadcast.

Questions about unicast

What does unicast mean?
Unicast means being the transmission of messages to a single destination host on a packet switching network.
What is unicast in Bengali?
Unicast in Bengali is এই পদ্ধতিতে প্রেরণ করা. See Unicast meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is unicast?
Unicast can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near unicast in the dictionary

  1. unicapsular
  2. unicarinate
  3. unicarinated
  4. unicarpellate
  5. unicase
  6. unicast
  7. unicasted
  8. unicasting
  9. unicastings
  10. unicasts
  11. unicate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unicast (page history and authors); unicast (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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