Case or CASE may refer to:

Containers

* Case (goods), a package of related merchandise *

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 metal ...

or casing, a firearm cartridge component *

Bookcase A bookcase, or bookshelf, is a piece of furniture with horizontal shelves, often in a cabinet, used to store books or other printed materials. Bookcases are used in private homes, public and university libraries, offices, schools, and bookst ...

, 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 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 ...

* 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 is an unincorporated community in Warren County, in the U.S. state of Missouri Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, ...

Case River The Case River is a tributary of the Kabika River, flowing in Cochrane District in Northeastern Ontario, in Canada. The course of this river runs through the townships of Steele, Case and Kenning. Forestry is the main economic activity of the se ...

, a Kabika tributary in Ontario, Canada *

Case Township, Michigan Case Township is a civil township of Presque Isle County, Michigan, Presque Isle County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 942 at the United States Census, 2000, 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, t ...

* Case del Conte, Italy

People

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) * Case (singer), American R&B singer-songwriter and producer (Case Woodard)

Arts, entertainment, and media

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The Case ''The Case'' is a 2007 Chinese film directed by the female first-time director, Wang Fen. It is the first film of the Yunnan New Film Project, a planned anthology of ten films directed by female Chinese directors, all taking place in the southern ...

'' (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'' (), 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. 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) {{Policy Debate In debate, which is a form of argument competition, a case, sometimes known as plan, is a textual advocacy presented, in form of speech, by the Pro (policy debate), Pro team as a norm (sociology), normative or "''should''" statem ...

, 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 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 *

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 The Sir Syed CASE Institute of Technology is a private university located in Islamabad, Pakistan. History In May 2001, a group of engineers returned after completing Ph.D in the United States. They set up EET (Engineering education trust) as a ...

, a private engineering institute in Islamabad, Pakistan *

Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology The Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology (CASE) is a research facility of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). It is a joint project of RPI and architecture firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM). It is located SOM's Wall Street offi ...

, 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 New College, University of New South Wales is a residential college, located in the UNSW campus in Sydney. The college is organised around on Anglican principles. About 250 undergraduate students, both local and international and of a variet ...

* Council for Advancement and Support of Education, a nonprofit association of educational institutions, US

Language and linguistics

Conceptually Accurate Signed English Manually-Coded English (MCE) is a type of sign system that follows direct spoken English language, English. The different codes of MCE vary in the levels of directness in following spoken English grammar. There may also be a combination with other ...

, a sign-language variety of Manually Coded English * Grammatical case, a common form of morphosyntactic inflection *

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 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 Support may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Supporting character Business and finance * Support (technical analysis) * Child support * Customer support * Income Support Construction * Support (structure), or lateral support, a ...

(or ticket), in an issue tracking system *

Switch statement In computer programming languages, a switch statement is a type of selection control mechanism used to allow the value of a variable or expression to change the control flow of program execution via search and map. Switch statements function some ...

, 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 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) * 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 Proof by exhaustion, also known as proof by cases, proof by case analysis, complete induction or the brute force method, is a method of mathematical proof in which the statement to be proved is split into a finite number of cases or sets of equiv ...

(or exhaustion), in mathematics *

Contribution to ARIEL Spectroscopy of Exoplanets Contribution to ARIEL Spectroscopy of Exoplanets (CASE) is a detector subsystem contribution to an infrared spectrometer instrument for the planned European ARIEL space telescope. It is being developed by NASA as a contribution to the European Space ...

(CASE), an instrument onboard European space telescope ARIEL