Case

Case or CASE may refer to:

Containers

Case (goods), a package of related merchandise
Cartridge case, also called casing or "brass", the metallic enclosure component in modern firearm cartridges
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, an enclosure that contains the main components of a computer
Keep case, DVD or CD packaging
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
Type case, a compartmentalized wooden box used to store movable type used in letterpress printing

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

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

Conceptually Accurate Signed English, a sign-language variety of Manually Coded English
Grammatical case, a type of morphosyntactic inflection
Letter case, a typographical distinction between capital and small letter forms

CASE, a database system used by the British Citizens Advice organization
Best, worst and average case, types of case analysis in computer science
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

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 an up-close, in-depth, and detailed examination of a particular case, in the social and life sciences
A trouble ticket, also known as a support case, in an issue tracking system
Proof by exhaustion, a method of mathematical proof also known as "proof by cases"
Contribution to ARIEL Spectroscopy of Exoplanets (CASE), an instrument on the European space telescope ARIEL