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special case

noun

Definitions

  1. A specialized instance of a more general phenomenon, category, etc.

    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:special case.

  2. To treat something as a special case

    To treat something as a special case; to handle in an explicitly different way.

    • 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?
    • Other languages have since special-cased that kind of computation with, for example, generators in Python or something where you can yield values.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for special case. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA