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/brˈɔdkˌæstɪŋ/ Listen

noun

broadcasting n.

The medium that disseminates via telecommunications; radio and television.

Synonyms: broadcast media.

Taking part in a radio or tv program.

verb

Broadcast v. (past & past part. broadcast; pres. part. broadcasting)

To cast or disperse in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; to diffuse widely.

To transmit (sounds, images, or other signals) in all directions from a radio or television station.

To disseminate (information, a speech, an advertisement, etc.) from a radio or television station.

To spread (information, news, gossip) widely by any means.

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Etymology of 'Broadcasting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Broadcasting" Quotes from Famous Books

... heard a ship off Long Island Sound speaking for a pilot; now some shore station at Boston assigned to some ship a harbor space; and now some powerful broadcasting station sent out to all the world a warning ...

— Curlie Carson Listens In • Roy J. Snell

... his parishioners as to deserve their confidence from childhood upwards, may be flouted as a sentimental ideal; but he is assuredly only their enemy in showing his Lutheran detestation of the sale of indulgences by broadcasting these ...

— On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin

... motion through the mechanical vibrations of a sensitive diaphragm much as when one speaks into a telephone. This motion is transmitted in waves of varying intensity and frequency which are sent into space by the mechanism of the broadcasting station, which consists of a sound conducting apparatus induced by strong electrical currents from generators or batteries and extensive aerial or antennas wires high in the air. Thus sound is converted into waves, and the receiving station, as ...

— Radio Boys Cronies • Wayne Whipple and S. F. Aaron

... system that would compete well with surprisingly similar commercial systems. Internet channels planned by media industry giants such as BSkyB will offer multi-megabit, interactive, digital data connections to the Net merely as an enticement for subscribers to enroll for their full digital broadcasting service (200 to 300 channels of digital video and sound). Understanding that there is much more to BADD than the little discussed here, one still almost wonders whether DARPA could simply buy a subscription and connect it to an appropriate, commercial, network management system. More to the point, ...

— Shock and Awe - Achieving Rapid Dominance • Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade

... As the apparatus was supplied with two steps of amplification, Hal had brought also a loud-tone horn to facilitate occasional parlor entertainment should they have leisure to listen-in to programs from various broadcasting stations within their receiving range in the course ...

— The Radio Boys in the Thousand Islands • J. W. Duffield