Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

corner case

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.69 in modern English

Syllables: cor-ner -case
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A problem or situation that occurs only when two or more operating parameters are at extreme values, or when two or more unusual operating circumstances happen to coincide.

noun

Any unusual scenario.

Example Sentences

"2001, Faisal I. Haque, Khizar A. Khan, Jonathan Erik Michelson, The Art of Verification with Vera, Verification Central LLC The smallest and largest legal packet sizes are examples of the first type of corner case. This type of boundary condition is usually specified by or easily inferred from the externally published feature set of the design."
"Using assumptions, however, our goal is to prove correctness while finding complex corner-case bugs."
"However, there is a corner case during which we don't want to trigger this event, and that is when the widget is being instantiated for the first time."
"Furthermore, Robolectric doesn't test activities against real devices or emulators and this might not catch corner case or incompatibilities or issues with particular versions and devices."

Inflected Forms

corner cases (plural)

Questions

What does corner case mean?: A problem or situation that occurs only when two or more operating parameters are at extreme values, or when two or more unusual operating circumstances happen to coincide.

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