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Case or CASE may refer to:
Containers
- Case (goods), a package of related merchandise
- Case, the metallic enclosure component in modern firearm cartridges
- Bookcase, a piece of furniture used to store books
- Briefcase or attaché case, a narrow hard-sided box used mainly for carrying paper documents
- Computer case, enclosure that contains the main components of a computer
- Keep case, a DVD or CD storage case
- Pencil case
- Road case or flight case, a shipping container specifically built to protect sensitive equipment in transit
- Shipping container, also referred to as a packing case
- Suitcase, a form of luggage
- Type case, a compartmentalized wooden box used to store movable type used in letterpress printing
Places
In the United States
- Case, Laclede County, Missouri, an unincorporated community
- Case, Warren County, Missouri, an unincorporated community
- Case Township, Michigan, a civil township
Elsewhere
- Case del Conte, an Italian village and hamlet of Montecorice (SA), Campania
- Case River, a tributary of the Kabika River in Ontario, Canada
People
- Case (name), a surname
- Case (singer), a.k.a. Casey Woddard, an R&B singer
Arts, entertainment, and media
- CASE, a fictional robot in Christopher Nolan's film Interstellar
- Réttur (English: Case), an Icelandic drama series
- The Case (2007), a Chinese film
Computing, science, and technology
Computing
- CASE, a database system used by the UK Citizens Advice until replaced by Petra from 2011
- Best, worst and average case, types of case analysis in computer science
- Computer-aided software engineering, the use of computers to assist in the software development life cycle
- Computer-assisted structure elucidation, the use of computers to elucidate molecular structures
- Switch statement, a control statement in computer programming
- Use case, in software engineering and systems engineering; a description of a system’s behaviour as it responds to requests
Other computing, science, and technology
- Case study, examination of a single instance or event
- 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
- Proof by exhaustion, a method of mathematical proof also known as "proof by cases"
Education
- 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, a graduate engineering program in Islamabad, Pakistan
- Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology, a research facility of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US
- Council for Advancement and Support of Education, a nonprofit association of educational institutions, US
Enterprises
- 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. R. Case & Sons Cutlery Co., an American manufacturer of knives
Linguistics
- Conceptually Accurate Signed English, a form of Manually Coded English
- Grammatical case, a type of linguistic inflection
- Letter case, in typography, the distinction between majuscule (capital or uppercase) and minuscule (lowercase) letters
Other uses
- Case (policy debate), in debate competition
- Business case, capturing the reasoning for initiating a project
- Egyptian Exchange, a stock exchange comprising the Cairo and Alexandria stock exchanges
- Legal case, a dispute between opposing parties, being resolved by a court proceeding
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 beginning with Case
- All pages with a title containing Case
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