CASE STUDY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does case study mean? 

• CASE STUDY (noun)
  The noun CASE STUDY has 2 senses:

1. a careful study of some social unit (as a corporation or division within a corporation) that attempts to determine what factors led to its success or failure

2. a detailed analysis of a person or group from a social or psychological or medical point of view

  Familiarity information: CASE STUDY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CASE STUDY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A careful study of some social unit (as a corporation or division within a corporation) that attempts to determine what factors led to its success or failure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("case study" is a kind of...):

report; study; written report (a written document describing the findings of some individual or group)

Domain category:

corp; corporation (a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A detailed analysis of a person or group from a social or psychological or medical point of view

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("case study" is a kind of...):

analysis (an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole)

 Context examples 

Findings of this case study suggest that two copies of the APOE3ch variant, named after Christchurch, New Zealand where it was first identified, may protect against Alzheimer’s.

(Unique case of disease resistance reveals possible Alzheimer’s treatment, National Institutes of Health)

Since K2-288Bb's radius places it in this gap, it may provide a case study of planetary evolution within this size range.

(Citizen Scientists Find New World with NASA Telescope, NASA)