Soft
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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
- Soft Reklambyrå, Swedish-based interactive agency
[edit] 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.
[edit] Literature
- Soft!, novel by Rupert Thomson
- The Soft Machine, novel by William S. Burroughs
[edit] 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), 1968 album by Soft Machine
- The Soft Parade, studio album by the psychedelic rock band The Doors
[edit] 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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[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
- The opposite of one of the many types of hardness
- The opposite of the texture roughness
[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 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