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Case or CASE may refer to:

Containers

• Case (goods), a package of related merchandise
• Bookcase, a piece of furniture used to store books
• Briefcase or attaché case, a narrow hard-sided box used mainly for carrying paper documents
• Computer case, enclosure that contains the main components of a computer
• Keep case, a DVD or CD storage case
• Pencil case
• Road case or flight case, a shipping container specifically built to protect sensitive equipment in transit
• Shipping container, also referred to as a packing case
• Suitcase, a form of luggage

Places

In the United States

• Case, Laclede County, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Case, Warren County, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Case Township, Michigan, a civil townshipÄš

Elsewhere

• Case del Conte, an Italian village and hamlet of Montecorice (SA), Campania

People

• Case (name), a surname

Art, entertainment, and media

• CASE, a fictional computer in Christopher Nolan's film Interstellar
• The Case (2007), a Chinese film
• Réttur (English: Case), an Icelandic drama series

Computing, science, and technology

Computing

• Best, worst and average case, types of case analysis in computer science
• CASE, a database system used by the UK Citizens Advice until replaced by Petra from 2011
• Computer-aided software engineering, the use of computers to assist in the software development life cycle
• Computer-assisted structure elucidation, the use of computers to elucidate molecular structures
• Switch statement, a control statement in computer programming
• Use case, in software engineering and systems engineering; a description of a system’s behaviour as it responds to requests

Other science and technology

• Case study, examination of a single instance or event
• 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
• Proof by exhaustion, a method of mathematical proof also known as "proof by cases"

Education

• Case Middle School, part of Punahou School in Oahu, Hawaii
• Case Western Reserve University, an independent research university in Cleveland, Ohio, US
• Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering, a graduate engineering program in Islamabad, Pakistan
• Council for Advancement and Support of Education, a nonprofit association of educational institutions, US
• Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology, a research facility of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US

Enterprises

• 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

Linguistics

• Conceptually Accurate Signed English, a form of Manually Coded English
• Grammatical case, a type of linguistic inflection
• Letter case, in typography, the distinction between majuscule (capital or uppercase) and minuscule (lowercase) letters

Other uses

• Case (policy debate), in debate competition
• Business case, capturing the reasoning for initiating a project
• Egyptian Exchange, a stock exchange comprising the Cairo and Alexandria stock exchanges
• Legal case, a dispute between opposing parties, being resolved by a court proceeding