CAST may refer to:

Medicine

  • Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial, a heart study in the 1980s
  • Childhood Autism Spectrum Test, formerly the Childhood Asperger Syndrome Test
  • Chronic addiction substitution treatment, a policy adopted in Vancouver Canada to reduce the harms of drug prohibition

Organizations

  • CAST (company), a software intelligence company
  • Canadian Air-Sea Transportable Brigade Group, a former organization in the Canadian military
  • Carolina Actors Studio Theatre, a theater company in Charlotte, North Carolina
  • Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, a Russian non-governmental organization which conducts research on arms trade and defense trends
  • Certification Authorities Software Team, avionic certification harmonization
  • China Academy of Space Technology
  • China Association for Science and Technology
  • Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking, a Los Angeles-based anti-human trafficking organization
  • College of Arts, Science and Technology, former name of the University of Technology, Jamaica
  • Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST), an organization with the US FAA which provides safety recommendations for commercial aircraft
  • Curriculum Advice and Support Team, former name of the Scottish Further Education Unit

Technology

  • CAST tool, a program for testing software
  • CERN Axion Solar Telescope, an experiment in astroparticle physics to search for axions from the Sun
  • Computer-aided simple triage, computerized methods or systems that assist physicians
  • Computer-adaptive sequential testing, a type of multi-stage testing
  • CRISPR-associated transposons, mobile genetic elements that have evolved to make use of minimal CRISPR systems for RNA-guided transposition of their DNA

Other

  • CAST (gene), which encodes the protein calpastatin
  • CAST (race), a fictional race of androids in the Phantasy Star series of video games

See also

  • CAST-128, a block cipher in cryptography
  • CAST-256, a block cipher in cryptography
  • Cast (disambiguation)

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