use more precise, easily understood words

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<title>Casting:</title>
<para>
<classname>Componere\</classname> casting functions can cast among user defined compatible types;
Where compatible means <classname>Type</classname> is contravariant or covariant with the class of <parameter>object</parameter>.
Where compatible means <classname>Type</classname> is a sub type or super type of <parameter>object</parameter>.
<xi:include xpointer="xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook) xpointer(id('componere.cast')/db:refsect1[@role='description']/descendant::db:methodsynopsis)" />
<xi:include xpointer="xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook) xpointer(id('componere.cast_by_ref')/db:refsect1[@role='description']/descendant::db:methodsynopsis)" />
<note>
<para>
Casting can not be performed losslessly: The result of a cast cannot be cast back to it's original class without loss, incurred at the point of the original cast.
</para>
</note>
</para>
</formalpara>