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Soft may refer to:

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• 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

Adventure Soft is a UK-based video game developer which was established in the 1980s by Mike Woodroffe, then owner of Callisto Computers, one of the very early computer shops. ... Cocktail Soft is a brand of F&C that is Japanese adult game company. ... Hudson Soft is a Japanese publisher and developer, founded on May 18, 1973. ... Illusion is a company from Yokohama, Japan famous for developing 3D eroge such as the Biko series, Battle Raper, Des Blood series, Artificial Girl and Sexy Beach. ... L-Soft is a leading provider of e-mail list management software, e-mail marketing software and e-mail list hosting services since 1994. ... Monolith Soft or MLSI is an entertainment company (not to be confused with Monolith Productions) in Japan, specializing in creating video games for various consoles like the PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS and cellphones. ... NCsoft (KSE: 036570) is a South Korean based online computer game company. ...

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 commodity is a commodity such as coffee, cocoa, sugar and fruit. ... A soft count is one process for counting banknotes in a casino or bank. ... Soft currency and hard currency are two forms of money in use around the world. ...

Literature

• Soft!, novel by Rupert Thomson
• The Soft Machine, novel by William S. Burroughs

Soft! is a novel by British writer Rupert Thomson, written in 1998. ... For the rock band named after this book, see Soft Machine The Soft Machine is the title of a novel by William S. Burroughs, first published in 1961 and was Burroughs first novel after the groundbreaking publication of Naked Lunch. ...

Music

• "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), 1968 album by Soft Machine
• The Soft Parade, studio album by the psychedelic rock band The Doors

Aha Shake Heartbreak is the second album released by the southern American rock band Kings of Leon. ... Soft Ballet is a famous Japanese industrial and synthpop band. ... Soft Cell is a Synth-Pop duo formed during the early 1980s. ... For the book by William S. Burroughs, see The Soft Machine. ... The soft pedal (or una corda pedal) is one of the standard pedals on a piano, generally placed to the left of the pedals. ... Soft rock, also referred to as light rock or easy rock, is a style of music which uses the techniques of rock and roll to compose a softer, supposedly more ear-pleasing sound for listening, often at work or when driving. ... The Soft Bulletin is the ninth album released by The Flaming Lips on May 17, 1999 (see 1999 in music) in the UK, with a US release following on June 22, 1999. ... Volume One, orginally titled The Soft Machine, is the debut LP by Canterbury psychedelic rock band The Soft Machine, first released in 1968. ... The Soft Parade is a studio album by the band The Doors, released in 1969. ...

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

Kelly v. ... Soft focus is a term used in photography and optics to describe a lens flaw. ...

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
• 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

Soft balancing is a recent addition to balance of power theory used to describe non-military forms of balancing evident since the end of the Cold War, particularly during and after the 2003 Iraq War. ... The term soft law refers to quasi-legal instruments which do not have any binding force, or whose binding force is somewhat weaker than the binding force of traditional law, often referred to as hard law, in this context. ... The soft left was the name given to the more moderate left wing forces in the British Labour Party in the 1980s. ... Campaign finance in the United States is the financing of electoral campaigns at the federal, state, and local levels. ... Soft Paternalism, also refered to as libertarian paternalism, is a political philosophy that believes state can “help you make the choices you would make for yourself—if only you had the strength of will and the sharpness of mind. ...

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

The soft palate, or velum, is the soft tissue comprising the back of the roof of the mouth. ... Binomial name Juncus effusus L. Soft rush (Juncus effuses) is a common plant native in most temperate countries. ... In medicine, the term soft tissue refers to tissues that connect, support, or surround other structures and 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
• 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

Dōjin soft (short for software) are video games created by Japanese hobbyists, more for fun than for profit; essentially, the Japanese equivalent of shareware video games. ... Soft Computing refers to a collection of computational techniques in computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning and some engineering disciplines, which attempt to study, model, and analyze very complex phenomena: those for which more conventional methods have not yielded low cost, analytic, and complete solutions. ... In electronics and computing, an error is a signal or datum which is wrong. ... In computer science, the soft heap is a variant on the simple heap data structure designed by Bernard Chazelle in 2000. ... This article is about the punctuation mark. ... A soft microprocessor is a microprocessor core written on any hardware description language (HDL). ... In computing, a softphone is a software program for making telephone calls over the Internet using a general purpose computer, rather than using dedicated hardware. ... A soft reboot (also known as a warm reboot, in contrast to a cold reboot) is restarting a computer under software control, without removing power or (directly) triggering a reset line. ... A soft return is entered automatically by your word processors word wrap feature when the text reaches the end of the line. ... In computer file systems, soft updates are an approach to maintaining disk integrity after a crash or power outage. ...

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

Soft matter comprises a variety of states, perhaps best distinguished as being dominated by energies of the order of room temperature thermal energy. ... Soft science is a colloquial term, often used pejoratively, for academic research or scholarship which is purportedly not based on reproducible experimental data and a mathematical explanation of that data. ... Soft water is the term used to describe types of water that contain few or no calcium or magnesium ions. ... Look up hardness in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Roughness or rugosity is a measurement (see surface metrology) of the small-scale variations in the height of a physical surface. ...

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

A soft drink is a drink that contains no alcohol. ... A soft gamma repeater is an astronomical object, now known to be a type of magnetar, which emits large bursts of gamma rays and X-rays at irregular intervals. ... Soft handover has been introduced in the CDMA digital cellular standard. ... Figure 1 - Inking a stamp. ... Soft polytheism is a variety of polytheism whose adherents believe in many Gods and Goddesses but consider them in some way as manifestations of a single personal God, or God and Goddess, rather than as completely distinct entities. ... Soft security usually refers to security which protects something from harm in quiet and unobtrusive ways; often invisibly and after the fact, rather than with visible barriers before the fact. ... Soft Sign (Ь, ь) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet (Russian: мягкий знак (mĭahkiy znak) [], Ukrainian: м’який знак (miakyy znak) [], Belarusian: мяккі знак (miakki znak) []). It is named so because it usually indicates softening, or palatalization, of the preceding consonant or of the group of them. ... A soft skill refers to the cluster of personality traits, social graces, facility with language, personal habits, friendliness, and optimism that mark each of us to varying degrees. ... to start the page ... A military term refering to an un-armoured or otherwise unprotected object to be destroyed. ... Soft tennis is a racket game played on a court of two halves, separated by a net. ...

See also

• Microsoft
• Soft soap
• Soft-coated
• Soft-shelled
• Soft-skinned
• Software (disambiguation)

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