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Special case
noun, verb
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Noun
- 1 A specialized instance of a more general phenomenon, category, etc.
"For quotations using this term, see Citations:special case."
- 2 A specialized instance of a more general phenomenon, category, etc.; A class of phenomena that is a subset of a more general class.
"Habermas, e.g., put forward that the legal discourse should not be understood as a special case of the moral discourse because in law next to moral reasons there are also ethical and pragmatic reasons to play a legitimate part (J. Habermas, Between Facts and Norms, 230 ff.)."
- 3 A specialized instance of a more general phenomenon, category, etc.; A theorem or other statement that follows directly from a more general statement.
"This is a special case of equation 4.9.10 with h(x)#61;K#95;v(#92;betax)."
Verb
- 1 To treat something as a special case; to handle in an explicitly different way. ambitransitive
"Special-casing the 100 most common words in English might speed things up."
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