uncastable

English[edit]

uncastable (comparative more uncastable, superlative most uncastable)

That cannot be cast (filled with, or allocated, a theatrical role).
- 1974 January 21, New York Magazine, volume 7, number 3:
  Colleen Dewhurst, though in many ways wrong for the virtually uncastable Josie, is as lucid and luminous […]
- 1996, Scott Donaldson, The Cambridge companion to Hemingway:
  […] that he would, like many actors, become so stereotyped in the public mind as to be uncastable in other roles […]
(computing, programming) That cannot be cast (converted to other data types).
- 2000, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl:
  They're strongly typed, uncastable pointers […]
(medicine) That cannot be set in a cast.
- 2005, Mercer Rang, Maya E Pring, Dennis Ray Wenger, Rang's children's fractures:
  ...internal fixation in children with open, unstable, or otherwise uncastable forearm fractures […]
That cannot be used for, or produced through, casting (manufacturing with a mould).
- 1943, The Mining Magazine:
  Casting must be done within a day or two of moulding or the moulds will begin to wind-dry and become uncastable […]
- 1982, Production engineering:
  This allows the casting of otherwise uncastable materials, with acceptable rejection rates, and can increase ductility by as much as a factor of six.