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corner cases

corner cases is the plural of corner case.

Meaning of corner case

Noun

corner case (plural corner cases)

  1. 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.
    • 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.2001, Faisal I. Haque, Khizar A. Khan, Jonathan Erik Michelson, The Art of Verification with Vera, Verification Central LLC
  2. (broadly) Any unusual scenario.
    • 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.2013, Adam Boduch, jQuery UI Cookbook, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN

Questions about corner cases

What is corner cases the plural of?
Corner cases is the plural of corner case.

Words near corner cases in the dictionary

  1. corner boys
  2. corner bracket
  3. corner brackets
  4. Corner Brook
  5. corner case
  6. corner cases
  7. corner flag
  8. corner flags
  9. corner forward
  10. corner forwards
  11. corner infield

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