Typecasting

Typecasting

Typecast or typecasting may mean:
* typecasting (acting), the process by which an actor is strongly identified with a specific character, role, or trait
* typecasting (blogging), a form of blogging in which text is composed on a typewriter, then scanned and uploaded to a blog
* casting of movable type pieces for use in printing presses
* type conversion in computer programming, changing an entity of one data type into another
* Typecast (band), Filipino band
* Typecast (horse), American racehorse


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