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(transitive, intransitive, chiefly programming) To treat something as a special case; to handle in an explicitly different way.

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special case

Source Word

special case

Verb

intransitive transitive

(transitive, intransitive, chiefly programming) To treat something as a special case; to handle in an explicitly different way.

Japanese Meaning

特別な事例として扱う / 通常とは異なる方法で処理する

In the configuration loader, we sometimes special case empty strings to preserve backward compatibility.

設定ローダーでは、後方互換性を保つために空文字列を例外として扱うことがあります。

Sense（1）

(transitive, intransitive, chiefly programming) 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.

special cases

（ present singular third-person ）

special casing

（ participle present ）

special cased

（ participle past ）

special cased

（ past ）