Usually means: Specific instance with unique characteristics.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. special case: Merriam-Webster
  2. special case: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. special case: Collins English Dictionary
  4. special case: Wiktionary
  5. special-case, special case: Dictionary.com
  6. Special case: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. special case: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. special case: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. special-case: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. special-case: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (special case)

noun:  A specialized instance of a more general phenomenon, category, etc.
noun:  A class of phenomena that is a subset of a more general class.
noun:  A theorem or other statement that follows directly from a more general statement.
verb:  (ambitransitive, chiefly programming) To treat something as a special case; to handle in an explicitly different way.

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