unicast

Meanings

adjectiveunicast (not comparable)

not comparablecomputingBeing 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 28, 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 original on 25 Dec 2001
not comparablecomputingSynonym of singlecast.
Synonyms: singlecast

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

present singular third person unicasts · participle present unicasting · common error unknown tag participle past proscribed sometimes unicasted · common error unknown tag past proscribed sometimes unicasted