Case
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Case can refer to:
[edit] General:
- Legal case, a dispute between opposing parties, being resolved by a court of law
- In jurisprudence, the evidence in a legal case
- Case (policy debate), the set of evidence that the affirmative team presents to support its plan in the First affirmative constructive speech. Derived from the sense of the word in jurisprudence as described above.
- A statement of facts and reasons to support a point of view
- The possible state of things, considered in case analysis, including best, worst and average case.
- An instance or example used in case study and machine learning
- A problem requiring investigation, or the actual investigation
- Suitcase, briefcase, attaché case, packing case, PDA Case or similar.
- Bookcase or casement window, an enclosure designed to hold something.
- Casing (ammunition)
- Computer case, a computer chassis
- Letter case in typography (the distinction between majuscule and minuscule letter forms) or sentence case.
- Grammatical case, that is, declension
- Computer-aided software engineering (CASE)
- Shakespearean English: A container or covering; (applied to) a mask; like 'vizard'.
- To reconnoiter or to get an understanding of a location (slang)
- Case-shot, a type of anti-personnel canister ammunition similar to a shrapnel shell
[edit] People, organisations, places:
- Case(Kase 2); New York, NY, the graffiti writer featured in the motion picture Style Wars
- CASE, the Cairo & Alexandria Stock Exchange in Egypt.
- CaSE, The Campaign for Science & Engineering in the UK
- Paul Foster Case, founder of Builders of the Adytum
- Steve Case, co-founder of America Online (AOL).
- Case (Neuromancer), the protagonist of the novel Neuromancer by William Gibson
- Case (rabbi), Polish rabbi and Talmudist of the end of the sixteenth century
- Case Corporation, defunct manufacturer of agricultural equipment and tractors
- Case Western Reserve University, an independent research university in Cleveland, Ohio
- Case (singer), an R&B singer signed to the Def Soul label
- Neko Case, an American singer-songwriter known for her solo Country music and as a member of The New Pornographers
- Neighborhoods of the Italian city of Cesena (Pronounced: /'ka.ze/. Italian for "houses"):
- Case Castagnoli
- Case Missiroli
- Case Gentili
- Case Scuola Vecchia
- Case Venzi