"edge case" meaning in English

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          "text": "The first thing to do is analyze the situation and determine whether the need to provide additional use is an edge case, or if it will become a common use-case scenario.",
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          "text": "One edge case is when the code processing the message has not finished, but the invisibility window lapses, and another copy of the same message gets dequeued. At this point, there are two active copies of that message being processed.",
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