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case number

A case number is a number assigned to a support case to identify that individual case.

In plain English

It is the identifying number tied to one specific support issue. It lets people refer to that exact case rather than to support requests in general.

In context

Here, it labels the identifying number assigned to that support case.

Situation
Responding to outages, degraded service, diagnostics, support tickets, and restoration updates
What it communicates
labels the identifier for the support case.

Meaning limits

By itself, this term only establishes case identification, not any other detail about the case.

Examples

“Even when two customers reported the same outage, each support case received its own case number.”

Core meaning

“All later emails about the broken scanner cited case number 48127.”

In context