Usually means: Converting subtype to a supertype.
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  1. upcast: Merriam-Webster
  2. upcast: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. upcast: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. upcast: Collins English Dictionary
  5. upcast: Vocabulary.com
  6. upcast: Wordnik
  7. upcast: Wiktionary
  8. upcast: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. upcast: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. upcast: Dictionary.com
  11. Upcast: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. upcast: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. upcast: Rhymezone
  14. Upcast: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. upcast: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. upcast: FreeDictionary.org
  17. upcast: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. upcast: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. upcast: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. upcast: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. UPCAST: Mining Terms used in mid 1800's

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Definitions from Wiktionary (upcast)

adjective:  Cast up; thrown upward.
noun:  (bowling) A cast; a throw.
noun:  (mining) The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine.
noun:  (mining) A current of air passed along such a shaft.
noun:  (Scotland) An upset, as from a carriage.
noun:  (Scotland) A taunt; a reproach.
noun:  (computing) A cast from subtype to supertype.
noun:  A message transmitted via upcasting.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To cast or throw up; to turn upward.
verb:  (transitive, Scotland) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To cast from subtype to supertype.
verb:  To broadcast a message or data to aircraft or satellites, especially via radio waves; as opposed to uplinking to a specific satellite or aircraft

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