software

Noun

Meaning

(computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

package software package computer software software program software system informatics show program computer performance code tool account operating system tron
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Antonyms

hardware disorder chaos mess disarray mayhem
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Hypernyms

code computer code

Hyponyms

cad function program assistant driver interpreter

Related terms

hardware firmware software engineering software assurance software crisis vaporware

Phrases with the word

service as a software substitute non-free software word processing software bundled software productivity software software language

Anagrams

forwaste softwear

Examples

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. Alan Kay

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. Alan Kay

Software is like sex: it's better when it's free. Linus Torvalds

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble? Alan Perlis

The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC. Bill Gates

While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. Lawrence Lessig

Close letter words and terms

softsynth softtail softwall software agent software application software archaeology