Soft

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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

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
Soft/Rock, a single by Lemon Jelly featuring the tracks "Soft" and "Rock"

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

Soft: Comftable

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

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

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

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

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