Multicast Meaning
/ˈmʌltiˈkæst/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe simultaneous transmission of data to several destinations on a network.
adjHaving multiple targets, such that a call to the delegate triggers a call to each target.
Sentence Examples
The multicast protocol is very efficient.
Multicast routing is widely used.
The router supports efficient multicast traffic across the network.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The streaming provider will ____ the event to all paying members exclusively using the new protocol.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The network engineer decided to use a ____ protocol to efficiently send the live video stream to several different servers at the same time.
Word Origin & History
Blend of multiple + broadcast.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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#:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The streaming provider will ____ the event to all paying members exclusively using the new protocol.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The network engineer decided to use a ____ protocol to efficiently send the live video stream to several different servers at the same time.