narrowcast

English

Etymology

From narrow, by analogy with broadcast

Verb

narrowcast (third-person singular simple present narrowcasts, present participle narrowcasting, simple past and past participle narrowcasted)

1. To transmit a programme to selected individuals or groups, especially via cable
2. To transmit a medical intervention to a specific organ or type of tissue.
   • 2018, Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, →ISBN:

     Cancer therapies can be narrowcasted to the unique genetic signature of a tumor instead of poisoning every dividing cell in the body.

Noun

narrowcast (plural narrowcasts)

1. A programme transmitted in this manner