Case or CASE may refer to:
Containers
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Case (goods)
A case of some merchandise is a collection of items packaged together. A case is not a strict unit of measure. For consumer foodstuff such as canned goods, soda, cereal, and such, a case is typically 24 items, however cases may range from 12 t ...
, a package of related merchandise
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Cartridge case
A cartridge or a round is a type of pre-assembled firearm ammunition packaging a projectile (bullet, shot, or slug), a propellant substance (usually either smokeless powder or black powder) and an ignition device (primer) within a metallic, ...
or casing, a firearm cartridge component
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Bookcase, a piece of furniture used to store books
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Briefcase
A briefcase is a narrow hard-sided box-shaped bag or case used mainly for carrying papers and equipped with a handle. Lawyers commonly use briefcases to carry briefs to present to a court, hence the name. Businesspeople and other white collar ...
or attaché case, a narrow box to carry paperwork
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Computer case
A computer case, also known as a computer chassis, is the enclosure that contains most of the hardware of a personal computer. The components housed inside the case (such as the CPU, motherboard, memory, mass storage devices, power supply unit a ...
, the enclosure for a PC's main components
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Keep case
A keep case or poly-box is a type of packaging, most commonly used with DVDs and Blu-ray videos (and sometimes CDs).
Besides DVD-Video films, keep cases are very common with most disc-based video games since the PlayStation 2, and they are al ...
, DVD or CD packaging
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Pencil case
A pencil case or pencil box is a container used to store pencils. A pencil case can also contain a variety of other stationery such as sharpeners, pens, glue sticks, erasers, scissors, rulers and calculators.
Pencil cases can be made from a v ...
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Phone case
Mobile accessories include any hardware that is not integral to the operation of a mobile smartphone as designed by the manufacturer.
Cases
Cases, which are designed to attach to, support, or otherwise hold a smartphone, are popular access ...
, protective or vanity accessory for mobile phones
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Battery case
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Road case
A road case, ATA case or flight case is a shipping container specifically built to protect musical instruments, motion picture equipment, audio and lighting production equipment, properties, firearms, or other sensitive equipment when it must be ...
or flight case, for fragile equipment in transit
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Shipping container
A shipping container is a container with strength suitable to withstand shipment, storage, and handling. Shipping containers range from large reusable steel boxes used for intermodal shipments to the ubiquitous corrugated boxes. In the context of ...
or packing case
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Suitcase
A suitcase is a form of luggage. It is a rectangular container with a handle typically used to carry one's clothes and other belongings while traveling. The first suitcases appeared in the late 19th century due to the increased popularity of ma ...
, a large luggage box
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Type case
A type case is a compartmentalized wooden box used to store movable type used in letterpress printing
Letterpress printing is a technique of relief printing. Using a printing press, the process allows many copies to be produced by repeated ...
, a compartmentalized wooden box for letterpress typesetting
Places
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Case, Laclede County, Missouri Case is an unincorporated community in northern Laclede County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community was on Missouri Route E
A supplemental route is a state secondary road in the U.S. state of Missouri, designated with letters. Supplement ...
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Case, Warren County, Missouri
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Case River, a Kabika tributary in Ontario, Canada
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Case Township, Michigan
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Case del Conte
Case del Conte, sometimes also spelled ''Casa del Conte'', is a southern Italian village and hamlet (''frazione'') of Montecorice, a municipality in the province of Salerno, Campania. As of 2009 its population was of 235.
History
The toponym mean ...
, Italy
People
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Case (name) Case is an English language name, usually a surname but sometimes a given name. The given name may be a diminutive of Casey. The name may refer to:
Surname
*Allen Case (1934–1986), American actor
* Andie Case (born 1992), American singer
* Andr ...
, people with the surname (or given name)
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Case (singer)
Case Woodard (born October 4, 1975), known mononymously as Case, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He is best known for the 1990s hits " Touch Me, Tease Me" (featuring Foxy Brown and Mary J. Blige), " Happily Ever Af ...
, American R&B singer-songwriter and producer (Case Woodard)
Arts, entertainment, and media
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The Case'' (2007), a Chinese film
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''Case'' (album), a 1996 album by American R&B singer and songwriter Case
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"Case" (song), a 2018 song by Nigerian singer Teni
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Réttur
''Réttur'' (, ''Right'') is an Icelandic television series created and produced by Sigurjón Kjartansson of RVK Studios, retitled ''Case'' and ''The Court'' in English-language markets. It was picked up by NBC and producer Howard Gordon
Howa ...
'' (), an Icelandic drama series
* CASE, a fictional robot in
''Interstellar'' (film)
Business, finance, and law
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CASE 30 The CASE 30 is an index of the Cairo & Alexandria Stock Exchange in Egypt. It includes the 30 most active stocks in the Egyptian stock market, weighted to their market capitalization. The index was started with a base level of 1000 as of January 01, ...
, an index of the Cairo & Alexandria Stock Exchange in Egypt
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Case Corporation
The Case Corporation was a manufacturer of agricultural machinery and construction equipment. Founded, in 1842, by Jerome Increase Case as the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company, it operated under that name for most of a century. For anot ...
, defunct manufacturer of agricultural equipment, tractors and cars
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Case Construction Equipment
Case Construction Equipment (stylized as CASE Construction Equipment, commonly referred to as simply Case) is an American manufacturer of construction machinery. Along with CASE IH, Case Construction Equipment is a brand of CNH. Case produces con ...
(Case CE), a manufacturer of construction equipment
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Case IH
Case IH is an American agricultural machinery manufacturer. It was created in 1985 when Tenneco bought selected assets of the agricultural division from International Harvester and merged it into its J.I. Case Company (IH then became Navistar).T ...
, a manufacturer of agricultural equipment
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W. R. Case & Sons Cutlery Co., an American manufacturer of knives
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Business case A business case captures the reasoning for initiating a project or task. It is often presented in a well-structured written document, but may also come in the form of a short verbal agreement or presentation. The logic of the business case is that, ...
, capturing the reasoning for initiating a project
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Legal case
A legal case is in a general sense a dispute between opposing parties which may be resolved by a court, or by some equivalent legal process. A legal case is typically based on either civil or criminal law. In most legal cases there are one or mor ...
, a dispute between opposing parties, being resolved by a court proceeding
Education
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Case (policy debate), in debate competition
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Case study
A case study is an in-depth, detailed examination of a particular case (or cases) within a real-world context. For example, case studies in medicine may focus on an individual patient or ailment; case studies in business might cover a particular fi ...
, 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
Punahou School (known as Oahu College until 1934) is a private, co-educational, college preparatory school in Honolulu, Hawaii. More than 3,700 students attend the school from kindergarten through twelfth grade, 12th grade. Protestant missionar ...
in Oahu, Hawaii
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Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio. Case Western Reserve was established in 1967, when Western Reserve University, founded in 1826 and named for its location in the Connecticut Western Reser ...
, 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
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Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology, a research facility of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US
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Centre for Christian Apologetics, Scholarship and Education
Center or centre may refer to:
Mathematics
*Center (geometry), the middle of an object
* Center (algebra), used in various contexts
** Center (group theory)
** Center (ring theory)
* Graph center, the set of all vertices of minimum eccentricit ...
, a ministry of
New College, University of New South Wales
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Council for Advancement and Support of Education
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) is a nonprofit association of educational institutions. It serves professionals in the field of educational advancement. This field encompasses alumni relations, communications, marketin ...
, a nonprofit association of educational institutions, US
Language and linguistics
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Conceptually Accurate Signed English, a sign-language variety of Manually Coded English
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Grammatical case
A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and Numeral (linguistics), numerals), which corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a nominal group in a wording. In vari ...
, a common form of morphosyntactic inflection
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Letter case
Letter case is the distinction between the Letter (alphabet), letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain lang ...
, a typographical distinction between capital and small letter forms
Science, technology, and mathematics
Computing
* CASE, a database used by the British
Citizens Advice
Citizens AdviceCitizens Advice is the operating name of The National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux which is the umbrella charity for a wider network of local advice centres. The abbreviation CitA is sometimes used to refer to this nation ...
charity
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Best, worst and average case
In computer science, best, worst, and average cases of a given algorithm express what the resource usage is ''at least'', ''at most'' and ''on average'', respectively. Usually the resource being considered is running time, i.e. time complexity, b ...
, in computer science, types of case analysis
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Computer-aided software engineering
Computer-aided software engineering (CASE) is the domain of software tools used to design and implement applications. CASE tools are similar to and were partly inspired by Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools used for designing hardware products. CAS ...
, for the software development life cycle
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Computer-assisted structure elucidation Computer-assisted structure elucidation (or CASE) is the technique of using software to generate all possible molecular structures that are consistent with a particular set of spectroscopic data.
The subject has been often reviewed. Available CASE ...
, for molecular geometry
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Support case (or ticket), in an
issue tracking system
An issue tracking system (also ITS, trouble ticket system, support ticket, request management or incident ticket system) is a computer software package that manages and maintains lists of issues. Issue tracking systems are generally used in coll ...
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Switch statement, a control statement, in programming
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Use case
In software and systems engineering, the phrase use case is a polyseme with two senses:
# A usage scenario for a piece of software; often used in the plural to suggest situations where a piece of software may be useful.
# A potential scenario ...
, a description of a system's behaviour in response to requests
Other science, technology and mathematics
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Calcium selenide
Calcium selenide (CaSe) is a chemical compound consisting of the elements calcium and selenium in equal stoichiometric ratio.
Preparation and properties
Calcium selenide can be prepared via the reaction of calcium and H2Se in liquid NH3.
: Ca + ...
(chemical formula: CaSe)
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Case-hardening
Case-hardening or surface hardening is the process of hardening the surface of a metal object while allowing the metal deeper underneath to remain soft, thus forming a thin layer of harder metal at the surface. For iron or steel with low carbon ...
, a process of hardening the surface of a metal object
* Case-shot, a
type of anti-personnel canister ammunition similar to a shrapnel shell
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Case study
A case study is an in-depth, detailed examination of a particular case (or cases) within a real-world context. For example, case studies in medicine may focus on an individual patient or ailment; case studies in business might cover a particular fi ...
, a research method involving in-depth examination of an individual
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Proof by cases (or exhaustion), in mathematics
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Contribution to ARIEL Spectroscopy of Exoplanets (CASE), an instrument onboard European space telescope ARIEL
See also
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Box
A box (plural: boxes) is a container used for the storage or transportation of its contents. Most boxes have flat, parallel, rectangular sides. Boxes can be very small (like a matchbox) or very large (like a shipping box for furniture), and can ...
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Carton
A carton is a box or container usually made of liquid packaging board, paperboard and sometimes of corrugated fiberboard.
Many types of cartons are used in packaging. Sometimes a carton is also called a box.
Types of cartons
Folding carto ...
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Casa (disambiguation)
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Casement window, a window that is attached to its frame by one or more hinges
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Casing (disambiguation)
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Crate
A crate is a large shipping container, often made of wood, typically used to transport or store large, heavy items. Steel and aluminium crates are also used. Specialized crates were designed for specific products, and were often made to be reusa ...
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Justice Case (disambiguation)
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