USE CASE Definition & Meaning

use case

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Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a scenario in which something is or may be useful; a particular situation in which something, especially a technology, is tested or employed:
The pharmaceutical database offers filters for a variety of use cases, such as prescribing, pricing, and dispensing medication.
The new feature works, but we would anticipate better performance in a real-world use case.

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Origin of use case¹

First recorded in 1990–95

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Example Sentences

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But it feels worth noting that the original predominant use case for crypto was to circumvent prohibitions on the vice economy, to gamble, and to buy drugs online.

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They destroy a piece of modern art and once again fail to articulate any viable use case for A.I. as we currently understand it!

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Do you worry that you’re missing someone’s use case, even if the product at issue sounds downright freakish to you or me?

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The real use case for oxygen-extracting technologies, adds Dr Burke, is in providing the oxidiser for rocket fuels, which could enable ambitious space exploration.

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"We show a tangible way to combine machine learning with physics for a use case that's risk-sensitive, which requires us to analyze the complexity of Earth's systems and project future actions and possible scenarios to keep people out of harm's way," Newman says.

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