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BROADCASTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does broadcasting mean? 

BROADCASTING (noun)
  The noun BROADCASTING has 2 senses:

1. a medium that disseminates via telecommunicationsplay

2. taking part in a radio or tv programplay

  Familiarity information: BROADCASTING used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BROADCASTING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A medium that disseminates via telecommunications

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

broadcast medium; broadcasting

Hypernyms ("broadcasting" is a kind of...):

mass medium; medium ((usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public)

Domain member category:

air; beam; broadcast; send; transmit (broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television)

interrogate (transmit (a signal) for setting off an appropriate response, as in telecommunication)

air (be broadcast)

rebroadcast; rerun (broadcast again, as of a film)

sign off (cease broadcasting; get off the air; as of radio stations)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Taking part in a radio or tv program

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("broadcasting" is a kind of...):

telecom; telecommunication ((often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically)

Domain member category:

cut-in; insert ((broadcasting) a local announcement inserted into a network program)

network ((broadcasting) a communication system consisting of a group of broadcasting stations that all transmit the same programs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "broadcasting"):

Rediffusion (a system for distributing radio or tv programs)

radio; radiocommunication; wireless (medium for communication)

telecasting; television; TV; video (broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects)

reception (quality or fidelity of a received broadcast)


 Context examples 


Or you may instead experience luck involving a publishing or broadcasting project, a legal matter, or one involving your pursuit for an advanced university degree.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A suspension of service (especially of radio or tv broadcasting).

(Blackout, NCI Thesaurus)

The change, from the analogue FM system to digital audio broadcasting, started on 11 January 2017 and is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

(Norway start a complete switch-off of national FM radio stations, Wikipedia)

The study found that broadcasting healthy reef sounds using underwater loudspeakers can double the total number of fish arriving onto experimental patches of reef habitat as well as increasing the number of species by 50 per cent.

(Loudspeakers used to attract fish back to dying coral reefs, SciDev.Net)

You may alternatively (or additionally) be excited about a publishing, broadcasting, or digital venture, or one involving academia.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The ninth house rules distant and foreign travel and international relationships, immigration (including green cards, visas, passports, and citizenship), publishing and broadcasting projects, legal matters, and academic pursuits.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Also, if you write for the Internet, are in publishing, broadcasting, social media, podcasting, app or software development, or other parts of the digital world, Mercury could create frustrations.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Broadcasting and publishing projects will go well for you, so if you are not the creator of the story, you might be the subject of a print or broadcast story.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

They will meet in Capricorn, your ninth house of foreign people and places, publishing and broadcasting, legal matters, immigration, passport, visa, green card, and all topics related to higher education (college and beyond).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

With publishing and broadcasting projects glowing, if you have a book idea, you may have your green light to publish your book.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



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