typecast

plural typecasts

1. computingThe modification of the data type of a variable or object.

present singular third person typecasts · participle present typecasting · common error unknown tag participle past proscribed sometimes typecasted · common error unknown tag past proscribed sometimes typecasted

1. actingTo cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly.
2. To identify one as being of a specific type because of one's appearance, colour, religion etc.

   The vulgar anti-communist typecasting of Soviet women as so "mannish" that they might really be males in drag.

   2004 August 18, Leslie Feinberg, “Rights for lesbians, transgenders, transsexuals”, in Workers World

3. computingTo cast (change of data type of a variable or object).

   Does anyone know how to typecast a String in Java into an int?

4. historicalmediaTo found type in a mold.

   Duensing has elected to resuscitate and typecast faces that in the main might be termed scholarly in nature […]

   1967, “Inland Printer, American Lithographer”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 159, part 2, page 116