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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

[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

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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

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