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pointcast

verb

Etymology

From point + -cast, from broadcast.

  1. derived from *pungō✻ — “to sting, prick”
  2. derived from pūnctus
  3. derived from pointe
  4. derived from pūnctum — “a hole punched in; a point, puncture”
  5. derived from point
  6. inherited from poynt
  7. formed as pointcast — “point + -cast”

Definitions

  1. To transmit targeted information to a single person

    • Google asserts that if the broadcast server can itself pointcast to receivers, then there is no need for receivers to filter broadcasts.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pointcast. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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