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1. Computer-Aided Software Engineering.
2. Common Application Service Element.
(01 Apr 2006)
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1. <computer programming> switch statement.
2. <character>
Whether a character is a capital letter ("upper case" - ABC..Z) or a small letter ("lower case" - abc..z).
The term case comes from the printing trade when the use of moving type was invented in the early Middle Ages (Caxton or Gutenberg?) and the letters for each font were stored in a box with two sections (or "cases"), the upper case was for the capital letters and the lower case was for the small letters. The Oxford Universal Dictionary of Historical Principles (Feb 1993, reprinted 1952) indicates that this usage of "case" (as the box or frame used by a compositor in the printing trade) was first used in 1588.
(01 Feb 1996)
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1. An instance of disease with its attendant circumstances.
Compare: patient.
2. A box or container.
Origin: L. Casus, an occurrence
Borderline case, a patient, whose clinical findings are suggestive, but not fully convincing, of a specific diagnosis.
(05 Mar 2000)
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