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, soda, cereal, and such, a case is typically 24 items, however cases may range from 12 to ...

, a package of related merchandise * Cartridge case 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 booksto ...

, 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 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 *

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 fro ...

* Phone case, protective or vanity accessory for mobile phones ** Battery case * Road case 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 o ...

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 ...

, 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 repeat ...

, 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. Supplem ...

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, 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

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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 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 an ...

, defunct manufacturer of agricultural equipment, tractors and cars ** Case Construction Equipment (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) ...

, 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 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 mo ...

, a dispute between opposing parties, being resolved by a court proceeding

Education

* Case (policy debate), 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 Business is the pract ...

, 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 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 Res ...

, 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, 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 va ...

, a common form of morphosyntactic inflection *

Letter case Letter case is the distinction between the 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 languages. The writing ...

, 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, 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, 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 som ...

, 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 scenari ...

, 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 *

, 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