special case
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.13 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A specialized instance of a more general phenomenon, category, etc.
noun
A specialized instance of a more general phenomenon, category, etc.
noun
A specialized instance of a more general phenomenon, category, etc.
Example Sentences
- "For quotations using this term, see Citations:special case."
- "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.)."
- "This is a special case of equation 4.9.10 with h(x)#61;K#95;v(#92;betax)."
- "Clearly, the Pythagorean theorem is a special case of the more general theorem, arrived at by letting r = 1."
- "Special-casing the 100 most common words in English might speed things up."
- "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?"