Case

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Case or CASE may refer to:

Instances

• Instantiation (disambiguation), a realization of a concept, theme, or design
• Special case, an instance that differs in a certain way from others of the type

Containers

• Case (goods), a package of related merchandise
• Cartridge case or casing, a firearm cartridge component
• Bookcase, a piece of furniture used to store books
• Briefcase or attaché case, a narrow box to carry paperwork
• Computer case, the enclosure for a PC's main components
• Keep case, DVD or CD packaging
• Pencil case
• Phone case, protective or vanity accessory for mobile phones
  • Battery case
• Road case or flight case, for fragile equipment in transit
• Shipping container or packing case
• Suitcase, a large luggage box
• Type case, a compartmentalized wooden box for letterpress typesetting

Places

• Case, Laclede County, Missouri
• Case, Warren County, Missouri
• Case River, a Kabika tributary in Ontario, Canada
• Case Township, Michigan
• Case del Conte, Italy

People

• Case (name), people with the surname (or given name)
• Case (singer), American R&B singer-songwriter and producer (Case Woodard)

Arts, entertainment, and media

• The Case (1972), a TV movie starring Cliff Richards and Olivia Newton-John
• The Case (2007), a Chinese film
• Case (album), a 1996 album by American R&B singer and songwriter Case
• "Case" (song), a 2018 song by Nigerian singer Teni
• Réttur (transl. Case), an Icelandic drama series
• CASE, a fictional robot in Interstellar (film)

Business, finance, and law

• CASE 30, an index of the Cairo & Alexandria Stock Exchange in Egypt
• Case Corporation, defunct manufacturer of agricultural equipment, tractors and cars
  • Case Construction Equipment (Case CE), a manufacturer of construction equipment
  • Case IH, a manufacturer of agricultural equipment
• W. A. Case & Son Manufacturing Co., a defunct American manufacturer of plumbing fixtures
• W. R. Case & Sons Cutlery Co., an American manufacturer of knives
• Business case, capturing the reasoning for initiating a project
• Legal case, a dispute between opposing parties, being resolved by a court proceeding

Education

• Case (policy debate), in debate competition
• Case study, a research method involving an up-close, in-depth, and detailed examination of a particular case, in the social and life sciences
• Case Middle School, part of Punahou School in Oahu, Hawaii
• Case Western Reserve University, an independent research university in Cleveland, Ohio, US
• Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering, now Sir Syed CASE Institute of Technology, a private engineering institute in Islamabad, Pakistan
• Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology, a research facility of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US
• Centre for Christian Apologetics, Scholarship and Education, a ministry of New College, University of New South Wales
• Council for Advancement and Support of Education, a nonprofit association of educational institutions, US

Language and linguistics

• Conceptually Accurate Signed English, a sign-language variety of Manually Coded English
• Grammatical case, a common form of morphosyntactic inflection
• Letter case, a typographical distinction between capital and small letter forms

Science, technology, and mathematics

Computing

• CASE, a database used by the British Citizens Advice charity
• Best, worst and average case, in computer science, types of case analysis
• Computer-aided software engineering, for the software development life cycle
• Computer-assisted structure elucidation, for molecular geometry
• Support case (or ticket), in an issue tracking system
• Switch statement, a control statement, in programming
• Use case, a description of a system's behaviour in response to requests

Other science, technology and mathematics

• Calcium selenide (chemical formula: CaSe)
• Case-hardening, a process of hardening the surface of a metal object
• Case-shot, a type of anti-personnel canister ammunition similar to a shrapnel shell
• Case study, a research method involving in-depth examination of an individual
• Proof by cases (or exhaustion), in mathematics
• Contribution to ARIEL Spectroscopy of Exoplanets (CASE), an instrument onboard European space telescope ARIEL
• Limiting case (mathematics), a special case with one or more extreme parameter values
• Limiting case (philosophy of science), a theory subsumed by another

See also

• Box
• Carton
• Casa (disambiguation)
• Casement window, a window that is attached to its frame by one or more hinges
• Casing (disambiguation)
• Crate
• Justice Case (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Case
• All pages with titles containing Case