software

Etymology
From, by contrast with. .

Noun

 * 1)  Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM).
 * 2) * 1958, John W. Tukey, "The Teaching of Concrete Mathematics" in The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 65, no. 1 (Jan. 1958), pp 1-9:
 * 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.
 * 1)  The human beings involved in warfare, as opposed to hardware such as weapons and vehicles.
 * 1)  The human beings involved in warfare, as opposed to hardware such as weapons and vehicles.
 * 1)  The human beings involved in warfare, as opposed to hardware such as weapons and vehicles.

Usage notes
Software is a mass noun (some software, a piece of software). By non-native speakers it is sometimes erroneously treated as a countable noun (a software, some softwares).

Hyponyms

 * See Thesaurus:software

Translations

 * Afrikaans: sagteware,
 * Albanian: softuer, softver
 * Amharic: ሶፍትዌር
 * Arabic: بَرْمَجِيَات, بَرَامِج حَاسِب
 * Armenian: ծրագրային ապահովում, ծրագրակազմ,
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܲܚܪܸܙܬܵܐ
 * Azerbaijani: proqram təminatı, PT
 * Belarusian: прагра́мнае забеспячэ́нне, ПЗ
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:, програ́мно осигуря́ване
 * Burmese: ဆော့ဖ်ဝဲလ်
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 軟件
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:, programové vybavení
 * Danish:, programmel
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: programaro
 * Estonian: tarkvara
 * Finnish:, , softa
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: პროგრამული უზრუნველყოფა, კომპიუტერული პროგრამა, პროგრამა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: תוכנה
 * Hindi: सॉफ़्टवेयर, क्रमानुदेश
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: hugbúnaður
 * Ido:, programaro
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: software, programmatura
 * Irish: bogearraí
 * Italian:, , supporto logico
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese: ꦥꦶꦫꦤ꧀ꦠꦶ ꦲꦭꦸꦱ꧀
 * Kazakh:, бағдарлама жасақтамасы
 * Khmer: ផ្នែកទន់, សូហ្វវែរ
 * Korean:, 무른모
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: программалык жабдык, программалык жабдуу, программалык камсыздоо, программалык жабдылыш
 * Lao: ໂລຊີຊີແອນ, ຊອບແວ
 * Latin: programmatura
 * Latvian: programmatūra
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lombard: prugramadura
 * Macedonian: софтвер, програмска опрема
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: softwer
 * Maori: pūmanawa, pūmanawa rorohiko
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: програм хангамж
 * Northern Sotho: softewere
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: programvare
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, programe de computer,
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: bathar-bog
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: програмска о̏према, напудбина, мекушје, мековље, мекотворина, со̏фтве̄р, програмска по̏тпора, програмска по̀дршка
 * Roman: programska ȍprema, napudbina, mekušje, mekovlje, mekotvorina,, programska pȍtpora, programska pòdrška
 * Sicilian: prugramma, software
 * Sindhi:
 * Sinhalese: පරිගණක මෘදුකාංග
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: programska oprema, programje
 * Spanish:, , soporte lógico
 * Swahili: maunzi laini
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: software
 * Tajik:, таъминоти барномавӣ
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: མཉེན་ཆས
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: programma üpjünçiligi
 * Ukrainian: програ́мне забезпе́чення, ПЗ
 * Urdu: سافْٹ وِئِیر, سافْٹ ویئَر
 * Uyghur: يۇمشاق دېتال
 * Uzbek: dasturiy taʼminot
 * Vietnamese:, phần ứng dụng,
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: ווייכוואַרג, פּראָגראַמוואַרג

Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) software encoded computer instructions

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   encoded computer instructions

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  software encoded computer instructions

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  technical and organizational ideas
 * 1)  technical and organizational ideas
 * 1)  technical and organizational ideas
 * 1)  technical and organizational ideas

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   encoded computer instructions
 * 2)  a piece of ; program

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   encoded computer instructions

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   encoded computer instructions