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▪ I. webcast, n. Computing.
Brit. |ˈwɛbkɑːst|, |ˈwɛbkast|, U.S. |ˈwɛbˌkæst|
Forms: 19– webcast, 19– web-cast, 19– webcast [Also with capital initial.]
[‹ web n. + -cast (in broadcast n.). Compare slightly earlier webcasting n.]
A live broadcast transmitted over the Internet.
1995Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 18 Aug. c5 WGN-Ch.9 received more than 200 e-mail responses..to its Webcast of Tuesday night's Cubs-Dodgers game. 1995Post & Courier (Charleston, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 13 Nov. c14 C/net, a combination syndicated TV show and Web site, is launching a new radio service via the Web...C/net radio will launch its Monday-to-Friday webcasts. 1996Guardian 22 Aug. (Online Suppl.) 3/5 It's risky to claim a first, but Purina is on safe ground with the first Webcast of the birth of an endangered rhino. 1999New Scientist 10 Apr. 17/3 San Francisco's Exploratorium hosts a number of events..via webcasts for those who can't make it to the West Coast.
▪ II. webcast, v. Computing.
Brit. |ˈwɛbkɑːst|, |ˈwɛbkast|, U.S. |ˈwɛbˌkæst|
Past tense webcast, webcasted
Forms: also with capital initial.
[‹ web n. + -cast (in broadcast v.). Compare webcast n., webcasting n.]
trans. To broadcast live over the Internet; to make viewable in real time by users of a web site.
1995Sportsbook: After Dark Football Preview Show on WWW in rec.sport.football.college (Usenet newsgroup) 2 Sept. The Sportsbook radio show is now exclusively webcast three times per week using Real Audio. 1999S. Beard in T. White Britpulp! 341 Copycat rioting spreads to the Edgehill estate as local media nets webcast the news of the Powick Bridge incident. 2001School Sci. Rev. Sept. 12/1 The event will be open to the public and will be web-cast—broadcast over the web. 2002P. Bell in T. Koschmann et al. CSCL 2, Carrying forward Conversation xi. 467 As student groups presented the details of their arguments, their SenseMaker argument was electronically Webcasted to the computer screens distributed throughout the classroom. 2005C. Stross Accelerando iv. 127 He also webcasts the call to prayer, but there are no other believers in trans-Jovian space to answer the summons. |