SOFT

soft is a feeling that is not hard or rough.
'Soft' may refer to:

Contents

Business

Economics

Literature

Music

Photography

Politics

Biology

Computer science

Other science

Other

See also

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

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

Literature

★ ''Soft!'', novel by Rupert Thomson

★ ''The Soft Machine'', novel by William S. Burroughs

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''

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

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

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

★ 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-shelled

★ Soft-skinned

★ Software (disambiguation)