Case or CASE may refer to:

Containers

* Case (goods), 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 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 fro ...

* 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), people with the surname (or given name) * Case (singer), 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'' (), 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 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 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 variety ...

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, marketin ...

, 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. The different codes of MCE vary in the levels of directness in following spoken English grammar. There may also be a combination with other visual clues, su ...

, 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 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. CA ...

, 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 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 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. : ...

(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 * 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 equi ...

(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 Spac ...

(CASE), an instrument onboard European space telescope ARIEL