software

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1.
(uncountable, usually)(computing) Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM).
The "software" comprising the carefully planned interpretive routines, compilers, and other aspects of automative programming are at least as important to the modern electronic calculator as its "hardware" of tubes, transistors, wires, tapes and the like.
2.
(uncountable, usually)(military) The human beings involved in warfare, as opposed to hardware such as weapons and vehicles.
3.
(dated, uncountable, usually)(music industry, dated) Recorded music content, as opposed to the hardware necessary for reproducing it.
4.
(archaic, uncountable, usually)Soft goods, such as textiles.

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soft Computing sense from soft + -ware, by contrast with hardware (the computer itself). John Tukey, 1958. The earlier sense of software to mean tangible products with a soft texture may have fallen out of common usage before the computing sense was created.