Soft 734027 224611265 2008-07-09T17:26:38Z Pats1 713965 Reverted edits by [[Special:Contributions/82.114.160.33|82.114.160.33]] ([[User talk:82.114.160.33|talk]]) to last version by 208.253.160.244 {{wiktionary}} ==Business== * [[Adventure Soft]], UK-based video game developer which was established in the 1980s by Mike Woodroffe * [[Cocktail Soft]], Japanese H game manufacturer * [[Hudson Soft]], Japanese publisher and developer * [[Illusion Soft]], company from Yokohama, Japan * [[L-Soft]], provider of electronic mailing list management and marketing software * [[Monolith Soft]], entertainment company in Japan * [[NCsoft]], South Korean based online computer game company * [[Soft Reklambyrå]], Swedish-based interactive agency ==Economics== * [[Soft commodity]], commodity that is grown, rather than mined * [[Soft count]], process for counting banknotes in a casino or bank * [[Soft currency]], form of money in use around the world *[[Soft Kiwi]],a currency trader in NYC ,known to be soft at times. ==Literature== * ''[[Soft!]]'', novel by Rupert Thomson * ''[[The Soft Machine]]'', novel by William S. Burroughs ==Music== * [[Soft (band)]], a New York indie rock band * "Soft", song by ''Kings of Leon'' from their album ''[[Aha Shake Heartbreak]]'' * ''[[Soft Ballet]]'', Japanese industrial and synthpop band * ''[[Soft Cell]]'', English synthesizer duo during the early 1980s * ''[[Soft Machine]]'', pioneering English psychedelic, progressive rock and jazz fusion band from Canterbury * [[Soft pedal]], one of the standard pedals on a piano * [[Soft rock]], style of music which uses the techniques of rock and roll to compose a softer, supposedly more ear-pleasing sound for listening * ''[[The Soft Bulletin]]'', the ninth album released by ''The Flaming Lips'' * [[The Soft Machine (album)|''The Soft Machine'' (album)]], 1968 album by ''Soft Machine'' * ''[[The Soft Parade]]'', studio album by the psychedelic rock band ''The Doors'' ==Photography== * [[Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corporation]], U.S. court case between a commercial photographer and a search engine company * [[Soft focus]], term used in photography and optics to describe a lens flaw Soft: Comftable ==Politics== * [[Soft balancing]], recent addition to balance of power theory used to describe non-military forms of balancing * [[Soft law]], quasi-legal instruments which do not have any binding force * [[Soft left]], the more moderate left wing forces in the British Labour Party in the 1980s * [[Campaign finance in the United States|Soft money]], indirect, unregulated donations to organizations that support a candidate but are not officially affiliated to his or her campaign * [[Soft paternalism]], political philosophy ==Biology== * [[Soft palate]], soft tissue constituting the back of the roof of the mouth * [[Soft rush]], common plant native in most temperate countries * [[Soft tissue]], tissue that connects, supports, or surrounds other structures or organs of the body ==Computer science== * [[Dojin soft]], video games created by Japanese hobbyists or hobbyist groups * [[Soft computing]], collection of new computational techniques in computer science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning * [[Soft error]], signal or datum which is wrong in electronics and computing * [[Soft heap]], variant on the simple heap data structure in computer science * [[Hyphen|Soft hyphen]], point at which a word may be broken * [[Soft microprocessor]], microprocessor core written on any hardware description language * [[Soft phone]], piece of software for making telephone calls over the Internet using a general purpose computer * [[Soft reboot]], restarting a computer under software control * [[Soft return]], automatically-entered return in a word processor when the text reaches the end of the line * [[Soft updates]], approach to maintaining disk integrity after a crash or power outage in computer file systems ==Other science== * [[Soft matter]], condensed phase * [[Soft science]], academic research or scholarship whose adherence to scientific principle is questionable * [[Soft water]], types of water that contain few or no calcium or magnesium ions * The opposite of one of the many types of [[hardness]] * The opposite of the texture [[roughness]] ==Other== * [[Soft drink]], almost any cold drink that does not contain alcohol * [[Soft gamma repeater]], astronomical object * [[Soft handover]], feature used by the CDMA standard * [[Soft lithography]], set of methods for fabricating or replicating structures * [[Soft polytheism]], variety of polytheism * [[Soft security]], security which protects something from harm in quiet and unobtrusive ways * [[Soft sign]], symbol in the Cyrillic alphabet * [[Soft skills]], cluster of personality traits, social graces, facility with language, personal habits, friendliness, and optimism that mark people * [[Soft systems methodology]], approach to organisational process modelling * [[Soft target]], unarmored or otherwise unprotected object to be destroyed * [[Soft Tennis]], racket game played on a court of two halves ==See also== * [[Microsoft]] * [[Soft soap]] * [[Soft-coated|Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier]] * [[Soft-shelled]] * [[Soft-skinned]] * [[Software (disambiguation)]] {{disambig}} [[ko:소프트]] [[ja:ソフト]]