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Software Definition–noun | 1. | Computers. the programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them. Compare hardware (def. 5). | | 2. | anything that is not hardware but is used with hardware, esp. audiovisual materials, as film, tapes, records, etc.: a studio fully equipped but lacking software. | | 3. | Television Slang. prepackaged materials, as movies or reruns, used to fill out the major part of a station's program schedule. | |
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Development Definition–noun | 1. | the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development. | | 2. | a significant consequence or event: recent developments in the field of science. | | 3. | a developed state or form: Drama reached its highest development in the plays of Shakespeare. | |
| 4. | Music. the part of a movement or composition in which a theme or themes are developed. | | 5. | a large group of private houses or of apartment houses, often of similar design, constructed as a unified community, esp. by a real-estate developer or government organization. | | 6. | Chess. the act or process of developing chess pieces. | | 7. | Mining. the work of digging openings, as tunnels, raises, and winzes, to give access to new workings, and of erecting necessary structures. | |
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