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