CAST

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)