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software
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context computing English) encode computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM). Compare hardware.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a software program ▪ a software program that aids in website design a software/catering/construction etc business ▪ His girlfriend runs a catering business. a software/program designer (= for computer programs ) ▪ Software ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1851, soft wares , "woolen or cotton fabrics," also, "relatively perishable consumer goods," from soft + ware (n.). The computer sense is a separate coinage from 1960, based on hardware .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Computer software , or simply software , is that part of a computer system that consists of encoded information or computer instructions, in contrast to the physical hardware from which the system is built. The term "software" was first proposed by Alan ...
Usage examples of software.
Their origins are a matter of record, in the merger nineteen years ago of the depraved Temple of Abraxas with a discredited house of surgical software, Frewin Maisang Tobermory.
I knew if he sold his algorithm to a Japanese software company, we were sunk, so I tried to think of any way I could stop him.
And the Sharyan religious police were as popular in interrogation software as Angin Chandra had been in pilot porn.
Distributed Sequence Annotation System, DAS for short, borrows an approach from Napster, the controversial software that allows people to swap music files over the Internet.
Our people can use commercial software to do stand alone jobs or pull down the apps from our servers, or they can tap into our database, or into the huge databases on the Internet to pull in reference data.
To prevent these attempts from succeeding, customer service software must be designed so that representatives can only type in the authentication information provided by the caller, and receive a response from the system indicating whether the password is correct or not.
Some bioinformatics companies cater to large users, aiming their products and services at genomics, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies by creating custom software and offering consulting services.
The microarray slides are read automatically by laser scanners, and the results, thanks to Bioinformatics, are fed directly into computers armed with appropriate software such that risk and hence cost can be predicted with rapidly advancing speed and accuracy.
He plays the master-class game, backing smugglers like me, leveraged buyouts, corrupting politicians, software piracy, design piracyI bought the Sony flatscreen templates Event Horizon uses from him.
There was nothing in the system except the functional cogitative software and his own data, loaded from slivers.
GoBop explained, pulling sheets of software fiche from zippered vest pockets like some comp magician.
I told an Exhibitionist I would comment only on the role of software and hardware, because they had been my responsibility.
He gestured to a short stack of software fiches sealed in NetSec evidence envelopes.
Trojan Horse, firewall, or other security-related software without prior approval from the information technology department.
If I could only raise my head from the pillow, metaphorically I must take off my woolly hat to whatever acned racist geck superhacker was using the stolen computer, and what software he must have written in anticipation.