Case or CASE may refer to:

Containers

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, soft drink, soda, cereal, and such, a case is typically 24 items, however cases may range ...

, 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 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 *

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 *

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 also ...

, 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 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 ** Battery case *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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

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 ...

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 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 means ...

, 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) Case Woodard (born October 4, 1975), known Mononymous person, 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 (rapper), Foxy Brown a ...

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

Arts, entertainment, and media

* ''

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 ''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 for a US ...

'' (), an Icelandic drama series * CASE, a fictional robot in ''Interstellar'' (film)

Business, finance, and law

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 *

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 ano ...

, defunct manufacturer of agricultural equipment, tractors and cars **

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 **

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).To ...

, a manufacturer of agricultural equipment * W. R. Case & Sons Cutlery Co., an American manufacturer of knives *

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 *

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

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 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 *

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 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 eccentricity ...

, 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 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, marketing ...

, 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 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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 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 ...

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 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

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 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 *

, 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