Case

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Case can refer to:

General:

• Legal case, a dispute between opposing parties, being resolved by a court of law
• In jurisprudence, the evidence in a legal case
• 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'. (The Encyclopedia Jr article on 'vizard' is not about the Shakspearean '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

People, organisations, places:

• Case(Kase 2); New York, NY, the graffiti writer featured in the motion picture Style Wars
• 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 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

[edit] See also

• Casa
• Sampling (case studies)

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