Definition of SOFTWARE

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Recent Examples on the Web The patient-specific stents developed by Gildea and an engineering team are designed using CT scans and proprietary 3D visualization software, and printed using a 3D printer. — Julie Washington, cleveland, "Airway stents developed by Cleveland Clinic doctor cleared for use by FDA," 8 Jan. 2020 Dell’s Optimizer software, which debuts on the Latitude 9510, analyzes your usage patterns and tries to save you time with routine tasks. — Melissa Riofrio, PCWorld, "Dell's Latitude 9510 shakes up corporate laptops with 5G, machine learning, and thin bezels," 8 Jan. 2020 And Elastic, which builds software that runs on Amazon’s cloud platform, sued Amazon for copying its branding to introduce a rival offering. — New York Times, "Sonos, Squeezed by the Tech Giants, Sues Google," 7 Jan. 2020 The American government reels off a long list of problems with the Chinese system, such as trade-secret theft, failure to respect intellectual property and failure to license software (a $6.8bn hole, according to the American government). — The Economist, "Chinese inventiveness shows the weakness of the law," 4 Jan. 2020 Most of the rest were high-end software, math and statistics jobs of the type that will probably never be options for the bulk of middle-class Americans. — Noah Smith, The Denver Post, "Guest Commentary: The middle class risks consuming itself," 30 Dec. 2019 In a career that spanned five decades, Mr. Segel founded 22 companies in fields as diverse as publishing, minting, photography, aviation, software, hospitality, television broadcasting, and behavior modification. — BostonGlobe.com, "Joseph Segel, founder of the QVC Shopping Network, dies - The Boston Globe," 27 Dec. 2019 Using editing software, cut and paste yourselves into the foreground of your favorite Disney image while erasing strangers in the background. — Scott Craven, azcentral, "The VIP's guide to Disneyland, from Club 33 to signature suites," 23 Dec. 2019 The excuse may be selling computer hardware and software, or teaching developers about new ways to code. — Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com, "San Francisco is too busy, no one holds conferences there anymore," 11 Dec. 2019

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“Software.” The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/software. Accessed 22 January 2020.