uncastable

comparative more uncastable · superlative most uncastable

1. 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

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   […] 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

2. computingThat cannot be cast (converted to other data types).

   They're strongly typed, uncastable pointers […]

   2000, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl

3. medicineThat 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

4. 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

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   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