use case

plural use cases · alternative use-case

1. computingA potential scenario in which a system receives an external request (such as user input) and responds to it.
2. computingA usage scenario for a piece of software; often used in the plural to suggest situations where a piece of software may be useful.

   So Amazon unveiled more software services to make A.W.S. indispensable. In a speech at the event, Andy Jassy, the head of A.W.S., said it wanted to “enable every imaginable use case.”

   2019 December 15, Daisuke Wakabayashi, “Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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   Shopify fulfills what’s known in the software development community as the “80 percent use case,” which means it provides 80 percent of the features that merchants need and third-party developers supply the rest[…]

   2020 November 24, Yiren Lu, “Can Shopify Compete With Amazon Without Becoming Amazon?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

3. generallyengineeringA usage scenario for a product, such as a piece of equipment or a tool.