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What does upcast mean?

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Adjective
  1. Cast up; thrown upward.
Noun
  1. (bowling) A cast; a throw.
  2. (mining) The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine.
  3. (mining) A current of air passed along such a shaft.
  4. (Scotland) An upset, as from a carriage.
  5. (Scotland) A taunt; a reproach.
  6. (computing) A cast from subtype to supertype.
  7. A message transmitted via upcasting.
Verb
  1. (transitive, obsolete) To cast or throw up; to turn upward.
  2. (transitive, Scotland) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
  3. (computing) To cast from subtype to supertype.
  4. 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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