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==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
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==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)]]
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