Software

Etymology
From, by contrast with. ; first used in print by Richard Carhart in 1953.

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.
 * 2) * 1991, New York Magazine (volume 24, number 5, page 33)
 * preview of horrific images to come, as the hardware stage of the war yields to the software — or human — stage.
 * 1) * 1991, New York Magazine (volume 24, number 5, page 33)
 * preview of horrific images to come, as the hardware stage of the war yields to the software — or human — stage.
 * preview of horrific images to come, as the hardware stage of the war yields to the software — or human — stage.

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 also Thesaurus:software

Translations

 * Afrikaans: sagteware,
 * Albanian: softuer, softver
 * Amharic: ሶፍትዌር
 * Arabic: بَرْمَجِيَات, بَرَامِج اَلْحَاسِب
 * Armenian: ծրագրային ապահովում, ծրագրակազմ,
 * Azerbaijani: proqram təminatı, PT
 * Belarusian: прагра́мнае забеспячэ́нне, ПЗ
 * Bengali: সফটওয়্যার
 * Bulgarian:, програ́мно осигуря́ване
 * Burmese: ဆော့ဖ်ဝဲလ်
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * 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: softwaro, programaro
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: software, programmatura
 * Interlingue: software, programmatura
 * Irish: bogearraí
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese: ꦥꦶꦫꦤ꧀ꦠꦶ ꦲꦭꦸꦱ꧀|tr=piranti alus
 * Kazakh:, бағдарлама жасақтамасы
 * Khmer: ផ្នែកទន់, សូហ្វវែរ
 * Korean:, 무른모
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Lao: ໂລຊີຊີແອນ, ຊອບແວ


 * Latin: programmatura
 * Latvian: programmatūra
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lombard: prugramadura
 * Macedonian: софтвер, програмска опрема
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: softwer
 * Maori: pūmanawa, pūmanawa rorohiko
 * Mongolian: програм хангамж
 * Northern Sotho: softewere
 * Norwegian:
 * 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
 * Sindhi:
 * Sinhalese: පරිගණක මෘදුකාංග
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: programska oprema, programje
 * Spanish:, , soporte lógico
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: software
 * Tajik: нармафзор
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: programma üpjünçiligi
 * Ukrainian: програ́мне забезпе́чення, ПЗ
 * Urdu: سافٹویئر, سوفٹویئر
 * Uyghur: يۇمشاق دېتال
 * Uzbek: dasturiy ta'minot
 * Vietnamese:, phần ứng dụng
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: ווייכוואַרג, פּראָגראַמוואַרג

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  encoded computer instructions

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)   encoded computer instructions

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)   encoded computer instructions

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)   encoded computer instructions

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)   encoded computer instructions

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)   encoded computer instructions