multicast

plural multicasts

1. computingThe simultaneous transmission of data to several destinations on a network.

   multicast address

   1 more example

   On an LAN, each host's network interface monitors the LAN and accepts packets addressed to the multicast address that defines the host group to which the packets belong. 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

1. not comparablecomputingHaving multiple targets, such that a call to the delegate triggers a call to each target.

   The result is a new multicast delegate that invokes both of the original implementing methods.

   2005, Jesse Liberty, Programming C#: Building .NET Applications with C#