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[edit] 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

[edit] Economics

[edit] Literature

[edit] 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

[edit] Photography

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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, 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

[edit] See also