German

Noun

Software f ‎(genitive Software, plural Softwares)

1. (only singular) software
2. "a software" (cf. usage notes in the entry), a programme/program
   • 2013, Jörg Becker: Die Digitalisierung von Medien und Kultur. Mit einem Vorwort von Lothar Bisky., Springer VS, p.47:

     Wer nutzt die Softwares, wie wirken die Programme auf das tägliche Leben?

   • 1999, C. Nimsgern et al., Computergestützte Evaluation der Nachstardichte mittels EPCO; in: C. Duncker & C. Ohrloff & F. Wilhelm (eds.), DGII: 12. Kongreß der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation und refraktive Chirurgie, Springer, p.195:

     Zur statistischen Auswertung wurden die Softwares Systat und Statistica verwendet.

Hyponyms

• Schadsoftware

Derived terms

• Softwareentwickler
• Softwareentwicklung

References

• Software on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

English

Noun

software ‎(uncountable)

1. (computing) Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM).
   • 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.

   • 1995, Paul Niquette, Softword: Provenance for the Word ‘Software’:

     As originally conceived, the word "software" was merely an obvious way to distinguish a program from the computer itself. A program comprised sequences of changeable instructions each having the power to command the behavior of the permanently crafted machinery, the "hardware."

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 Wikisaurus:software

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

References

1. ↑ "Part 0. Introduction: The Software Age", Softword: Provenance for the Word 'Software', 2006 by Paul Niquette, ISBN 1-58922-233-4 , adapted from article first published in 1995 in author’s magazine, Sophisticated: The Magazine, ISBN 1-58922-232-6 (archival links)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English software.

Noun

software m ‎(invariable)

1. (computing) software

Norman

Etymology

Borrowing from English software.

Noun

software m ‎(uncountable)

1. (Jersey, computing) software

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from English software.

Noun

software m (plural softwares)

1. (computing) software (encoded computer instructions)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from English software.

Noun

software m ‎(plural softwares)

1. (computing) software (encoded computer instructions)

Synonyms

• programa