Case

Case or CASE may refer to:

Instances

 * Instantiation (disambiguation), a realization of a concept, theme, or design
 * Special case, an instance that differs in a certain way from others of the type

Containers

 * Case (goods), a package of related merchandise
 * Cartridge case or casing, a firearm cartridge component
 * Bookcase, 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
 * 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 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

 * The Case (1972), a TV movie starring Cliff Richards and Olivia Newton-John
 * The Case (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. A. Case & Son Manufacturing Co., a defunct American manufacturer of plumbing fixtures
 * 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), 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 in Oahu, Hawaii
 * Case Western Reserve University, an independent research university in Cleveland, Ohio, US
 * Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering, now Sir Syed CASE Institute of Technology, a private engineering institute in Islamabad, Pakistan
 * Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology, 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
 * 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 common form of morphosyntactic inflection
 * Letter case, a typographical distinction between capital and small letter forms

Computing

 * CASE, a database used by the British Citizens Advice charity
 * Best, worst and average case, 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 (or ticket), in an issue tracking system
 * Switch statement, a control statement, in programming
 * Use case, 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
 * Case study, a research method involving in-depth examination of an individual
 * Proof by cases (or exhaustion), in mathematics
 * Contribution to ARIEL Spectroscopy of Exoplanets (CASE), an instrument onboard European space telescope ARIEL
 * Limiting case (mathematics), a special case with one or more extreme parameter values
 * Limiting case (philosophy of science), a theory subsumed by another