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Definition of Broadcast
Broad´cast` | n. | 1. | (Agric.) A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing. | | 2. | an act of broadcasting; specifically, a program in which sounds or images are transmitted in all directions from a radio or television station; - usually referring to a scheduled program on a commercial or public service radio or television station, using the normal radio frequencies for those media, in contrast to a radiotelephone conversation, which may also be transmitted in all directions, but is intended for receipt by a base station in the telephone network. | | a. | 1. | Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused. | | 2. | Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); - opposed to planting in hills, or rows. | | adv. | 1. | So as to scatter or be scattered in all directions; so as to spread widely, as seed from the hand in sowing, or news from the press. | | v. | 1. | to cast or disperse in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; to diffuse widely. | | 2. | to transmit (sounds, images, or other signals) in all directions from a radio or television station. | | 3. | to disseminate (information, a speech, an advertisement, etc.) from a radio or television station. | | 4. | to spread (information, news, gossip) widely by any means. |
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