special case
Noun
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Noun
special case (plural special cases)
- a class of phenomena that is a subset of a more general class
- 2013, Luc J. Wintgens, The Law in Philosophical Perspectives: My Philosophy of Law, Springer Science & Business Media (ISBN 9789401593175), page 42
- 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.).
- 2013, Luc J. Wintgens, The Law in Philosophical Perspectives: My Philosophy of Law, Springer Science & Business Media (ISBN 9789401593175), page 42
- a theorem or other statement that follows directly from a more general statement
- 2008, Andrei D. Polyanin, Alexander V. Manzhirov, Handbook of Integral Equations: Second Edition, CRC Press (ISBN 9780203881057), page 356
- This is a special case of equation 4.9.10 with h(x) = K_v(\beta x).
- 2005, James Robert Brown, Philosophy of Mathematics: An Introduction to a World of Proofs and Pictures, Routledge (ISBN 9781134806430), page 33
- Clearly, the Pythagorean theorem is a special case of the more general theorem, arrived at by letting r = 1.
- 2008, Andrei D. Polyanin, Alexander V. Manzhirov, Handbook of Integral Equations: Second Edition, CRC Press (ISBN 9780203881057), page 356
- French: cas particulier
special case (special cases, present participle special casing; past and past participle special cased)
- (ambitransitive, mostly, programming) To treat something as a special case; to handle in an explicitly different way.
- 1988, Jon Louis Bentley, More Programming Pearls: Confessions of a Coder (page 10)
- Special-casing the 100 most common words in English might speed things up.
- 1992, Scott Knaster, Keith Rollin, Macintosh Programming Secrets (page 46)
- If these programs work as well as they can even without going through QuickDraw, what's the penalty for going around the system and special casing?
- 2009, Peter Seibel, Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming (page 258)
- Other languages have since special-cased that kind of computation with, for example, generators in Python or something where you can yield values.
- 1988, Jon Louis Bentley, More Programming Pearls: Confessions of a Coder (page 10)
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