castable

English

Etymology

From cast +‎ -able.

Adjective

castable (comparative more castable, superlative most castable)

1. Able to be cast. In particular:
   1. Capable of or suitable for being assigned a role in a play, film, etc.
      • 2009 October 13, Susie Essman, What Would Susie Say?: Bullsh*t Wisdom About Love, Life and Comedy, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

        I always assumed that I'd be more castable as I got older. I'm a character actress and a comedian —not some pretty little ingénue. I figured I'd grow […]

      • 2020 February 24, Harlan Post, Rolling the Dice: Everything You Want to Know About Becoming a Hollywood Actor, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:

        Most importantly, agents want to know you are castable. The easiest way to show them that, obviously, is to get cast in stuff. You might have a long and impressive resume from your acting school or community theater back home […]

   2. Capable of being performed and brought forth (as a spell or magic).
      • 1972, William Joseph Whalen, Minority Religions in America:

        page=144 Witches Spellbook is advertised [as] "For those who'd like to be witches and get their hands on a batch of castable spells." This book also includes a shopping guide for such necessities as bottled bat's blood.

      • 2021 December 26, Azalea Ellis, A Binding of Blood: A Gaslamp University Hard Fantasy, Seladore Publishing:

        Magic tomes […] provided access to more castable spells than would fit in most artifacts, up to two or three dozen. The military offered its soldiers a few portable arrays made of precious metals wrought into the desired shapes, but those would be even less accessible […]

   3. (engineering) Capable of being cast, as in a mould.
   4. (programming) Capable of being cast to another data type.

Derived terms

• uncastable

Related terms

• castability

Translations

Capable of being cast in engineering

Capable of being cast in programming

• French: transtypable (fr)
• Polish: rzutowalny

Noun

castable (plural castables)

1. (engineering) Any substance that can be cast, as in a mould.

Translations

Any substance that can be cast