uncastable
adjEtymology From un- + castable.
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That cannot be cast (filled with, or allocated, a theatrical role).
- Colleen Dewhurst, though in many ways wrong for the virtually uncastable Josie, is as lucid and luminous […]1974 January 21, New York Magazine, volume 7, number 3:
- […] that he would, like many actors, become so stereotyped in the public mind as to be uncastable in other roles […]1996, Scott Donaldson, The Cambridge companion to Hemingway:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences That cannot be cast (converted to other data types).
- They're strongly typed, uncastable pointers […]2000, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl:
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Medicine, Sciences That cannot be set in a cast.
- ...internal fixation in children with open, unstable, or otherwise uncastable forearm fractures […]2005, Mercer Rang, Maya E Pring, Dennis Ray Wenger, Rang's children's fractures:
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That cannot be used for, or produced through, casting (manufacturing with a mould).
- Casting must be done within a day or two of moulding or the moulds will begin to wind-dry and become uncastable […]1943, The Mining Magazine:
- This allows the casting of otherwise uncastable materials, with acceptable rejection rates, and can increase ductility by as much as a factor of six.1982, Production engineering: