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WORST CASE

Specialty Definition: WORST CASE

DomainDefinition

Math

A translation of an algorithm from one model of computation to another in which the work is the same in both models, to within a constant factor. (references)

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Crosswords: WORST CASE

Specialty definitions using "WORST CASE": amortized costcompetitive ratiooverclockingweight-balanced treexor. (references)

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Modern Usage: WORST CASE

DomainUsage

Screenplays

How is it that you always come up with the worst case scenario? (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright)

Worst case scenario? (Rock the Boat; writing credit: Tobi Ross)

Movie/TV Titles

Worst Case Scenarios (2002)

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Commercial Usage: WORST CASE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Travel (reference)

  • The Worst Case Scenario 2003 Block Calendar: Daily Survival Calendar (reference)

  • Worst Case Scenario Survival 2003 Engagement Calendar (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Star Trek - Voyager, Episode 67: Worst Case Scenario (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

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Non-Fiction Usage: WORST CASE

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Business

At Mae Moh, the power plant with the worst case of air pollution emission in Thailand, there are 15 ambient AQ monitoring stations. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expressions: WORST CASE

Expressions using "WORST CASE": Worst case design worst case testing. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WORST CASE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

worst case scenario

87

worst case

6

the worst case scenario survival handbook

5

worst case scenario handbook

4

worst case scenario book

3

worst case scenario game

2
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Modern Translation: WORST CASE

Language Translations for "WORST CASE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

worst-case afprøvning (most appropriate challenge conditions, worst case testing), afprøvning af værste tilfælde (most appropriate challenge conditions, worst case testing). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ergste-geval-test (most appropriate challenge conditions, worst case testing). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

huonoimman vaihtoehdon testaus (most appropriate challenge conditions, worst case testing). (various references)

   

French

  

test dans le pire cas (worst case testing), test dans le cas le plus défavorable (worst case testing). (various references)

   

German

  

schlimmster Fall. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

δοκιμές της χειρότερης περίπτωσης (most appropriate challenge conditions, worst case testing). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

legrosszabb esetben (at the worst, at worst, in the worst case). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

orstway asecay

   

Portuguese

  

teste dos piores casos (most appropriate challenge conditions, worst case testing). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

неблагоприятный (adverse, baffling, contrary, disadvantageous, inauspicious, inimical, none to bright, none too bright, sinister, unauspicious, unfavorable, unfavourable, unfriendly, unpropitious, untoward, worst-case). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pruebas para el caso más desfavorable (most appropriate challenge conditions, worst case testing), condiciones de provocación de errores (most appropriate challenge conditions, worst case testing). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: WORST CASE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-o-r-s-s-t-w"

-1 letter: coarsest, coasters.

-2 letters: actress, casters, castors, coaster, coaters, corsets, costars, costers, escorts, escrows, recasts, scoters, sectors, sowcars, wasters, worsets.

-3 letters: across, actors, ascots, assert, assort, asters, caress, carets, carses, cartes, caster, castes, castor, caters, cestas, cestos, coarse, coasts, coater, corses, corset, cosets, cosset, costae, costar, coster, cowers, crases, crates, crests, crosse, escars, escort.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-o-r-s-s-t-w"
 

+3 letters: watercourses.

 

+5 letters: watercolorists.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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