Definition of case

1. the property of being capitalized (uppercase, LIKE THIS) or lowercase (like this); so called because of thewooden cases in which printers' type was stored in the 1800s.
2. a statement in Pascal that directs a program to choose one action from a list of alternatives, depending on the value of a given variable. Here is an example of a case statement:

CASE place OF
1 : writeln('First place !!!');
2 : writeln('Second place');
3 : writeln('Third place')
END;
If the variable place has the value 1, then the first writeln statement will be executed, and so on. The switch statement in C and Java and the SELECT CASE statement in newer versions of BASIC perform similar functions.

Merchandising:

1. see display case.
2. container used for a standard quantity of goods sold at wholesale rates, such as a case of canned goods.

Printing: hard cover of a book attached to the signatures. The case consists of two boards, covering material, and lining material. The case is attached to the pages with an adhesive in a process termed casing in. Case bindings are usually used for high-priced publications intended to survive long periods of time, such as most textbooks, encyclopedias, and library copies of books.