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Soft may refer to: * Softness, or hardness, a property of physical materials Arts and entertainment * ''Soft!'', a novel by Rupert Thomson, 1988 * Soft (band), an American music group * Soft (album), ''Soft'' (album), by Dan Bodan, 2014 * Softs (album), ''Softs'' (album), by Soft Machine, 1976 * "Soft", a song by Flo from ''Access All Areas (Flo album), Access All Areas'', 2024, or the remixed version, with Chlöe and Halle, 2024 * "Soft", a song by Kings of Leon from ''Aha Shake Heartbreak'', 2004 * Soft/Rock, "Soft"/"Rock", a song by Lemon Jelly, 2001 Other uses * Sorgenti di Firenze Trekking (SOFT), a system of walking trails in Italy * Soft matter, a subfield of condensed matter * Magnetically soft, material with low coercivity * soft water, which has low mineral content * Soft skills, a person's people, social, and other skills * Soft commodities, or softs *A flaccid penis, the opposite of "hard" See also * * * Softener (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Softness
In materials science, hardness (antonym: softness) is a measure of the resistance to plastic deformation, such as an indentation (over an area) or a scratch (linear), induced mechanically either by Pressing (metalworking), pressing or abrasion (mechanical), abrasion. In general, different materials differ in their hardness; for example hard metals such as titanium and beryllium are harder than soft metals such as sodium and metallic tin, or wood and common plastics. Macroscopic hardness is generally characterized by strong intermolecular bonds, but the behavior of solid materials under force is complex; therefore, hardness can be measured in different ways, such as scratch hardness, indentation hardness, and rebound hardness. Hardness is dependent on ductility, elasticity (physics), elastic stiffness, plasticity (physics), plasticity, deformation (mechanics), strain, strength of materials, strength, toughness, viscoelasticity, and viscosity. Common examples of hard matter are cer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soft!
''Soft!'' is a 1998 novel by British writer Rupert Thomson. In the novel, the protagonists acting as participants in a sleep experiment and find themselves the unwitting word-of-mouth advertisers of 'Kwench!', a new soft drink. References {{1990s-novel-stub 1998 British novels Novels about advertising Bloomsbury Publishing books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soft (band)
Soft is an American indie rock band from New York City. History Soft formed in Brooklyn in 2003, but the group did not begin performing live until more than a year afterwards; for this reason, they were not well known on the New York music scene despite receiving critical acclaim elsewhere. Prior to forming Soft, lead singer John Reineck had previously played in a band called The Siren Six! at the University of Minnesota, and spent a year in Osaka working for a noise music record label after college. The name "Soft" was given to the group by Mickey Madden from Maroon 5, who suggested it after the group opened for one of their shows.Band of the Day:Soft SPIN, October 22, 2007. Accessed January 2, 2008. The group also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soft (album)
''Soft'' is an album by Dan Bodan released by DFA Records DFA Records is an American independent record label based in New York City. The label was originally founded in 2001 by Tim Goldsworthy, musician James Murphy (electronic musician), James Murphy, and manager Jonathan Galkin. Goldsworthy and Mur ... on 27 October 2014. Track listing All tracks by Dan Bodan except "For Heaven's Sake (Let's Fall in Love)" by Bodan, Elise Bretton, Sherman Edwards #"A Soft Opening" – 3:41 #"Anonymous" – 4:32 #"Romeo" – 4:30 #"Soft as Rain" – 3:52 #"For Heaven's Sake (Let's Fall in Love)" – 4:30 #"Reload" – 3:52 #"Jaws of Life" – 4:09 #"Rusty" – 4:12 #"Catching Fire" – 4:23 #"Goodtime Summer" – 2:58 References 2014 albums DFA Records albums {{2010s-electronic-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Softs (album)
''Softs'' is the ninth studio album by the jazz rock band Soft Machine, released in 1976. Overview John Etheridge replaced Allan Holdsworth on guitar shortly after the release of the previous album, '' Bundles'', and Alan Wakeman, cousin of Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman, took over saxophone duties from Karl Jenkins. Karl would play keyboards exclusively from this point onward. During the recording of the album, the group's last remaining original member, Mike Ratledge, left the band. In 2019, Etheridge told Ed Masley that: Two tracks recorded during the early sessions with Ratledge were included on the album. Wakeman and bassist Roy Babbington left the group not long after the album was released, Wakeman having been a member for less than six months. The album was originally to be titled ''One Over the Eight'', a reference to this being the band's ninth album, but this title was eventually rejected. Track listing All compositions by Karl Jenkins except where indica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Access All Areas (Flo Album)
''Access All Areas'' (also abbreviated as ''AAA'') is the debut album by English girl group Flo. It was released on 15 November 2024 through Island Records. It marks the group's first full-length project after releasing two extended plays: '' The Lead'' (2022) and '' 3 of Us'' (2023). The standard version of ''Access All Areas'' features guest vocals from Cynthia Erivo and GloRilla, while the "Unlocked" version includes guest vocals from Chlöe, Halle, Kehlani, Bree Runway and Dixson. ''Access All Areas'' received generally positive reviews from critics. The album was preceded by three singles—"Walk Like This", "Caught Up", and "Check"—and two promotional singles, while a fourth single, "In My Bag", coincided with the album release. It is a contemporary R&B album featuring production and songwriting from MNEK and notable contributions from Camper, Jay Versace, Pop Wansel, Sevyn Streeter, and more. Background On 3 July 2023, Flo surprise announced their second EP, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aha Shake Heartbreak
''Aha Shake Heartbreak'' is the second studio album by American rock band Kings of Leon. It was first released in Europe on November 1, 2004, then in the United States on February 22, 2005, with alternate cover artwork. It is the only album by Kings of Leon to have a Parental Advisory label, because of profanity in "Taper Jean Girl," "Rememo," "Soft" and " Four Kicks." The U.S. album cover is reminiscent of Queen's '' A Night at the Opera''. " The Bucket", "Four Kicks" and " King of the Rodeo" were released as singles in the UK. Recording Like its predecessor, ''Aha Shake Heartbreak'' was recorded with producer Ethan Johns at his Three Crows Studio in Los Angeles using The Beatles' old Abbey Road mixing desk. Title and artwork The title of the album comes from the third track, "Taper Jean Girl." There were two different covers for the album: the original UK/Ireland version of the album featured a white orchid on a black background, whereas the later U.S. version featured ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soft/Rock
"Soft/Rock" is the debut single by English electronic music duo Lemon Jelly, which was released on 21 June 2001. The 7" single was released in two formats; the first was limited to 1,000 copies and released on blue vinyl, each coming in its own hand-stitched denim sleeve with a flavoured condom, the second was also limited to 1,000 copies but released on black vinyl in a black sleeve with a sticker. The first twelve or so (exact numbers unknown) of the blue vinyl edition were different in design from the others, featuring enhanced embroidery and a business card from the award-winning embroidery artist, Laura Lees. These extremely rare singles were very time-consuming to fabricate, so the design was simplified for the remainder of the format. Therefore, the first twelve are highly sought after and occasionally change hands on eBay for several hundred pounds. The A-side, "Soft", features an uncleared sample from Chicago Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sorgenti Di Firenze Trekking
The Sorgenti di Firenze Trekking (SOFT, Florence Springs Walking) is a system of hiking trails with twenty-two secondary trails that are connected to it in Tuscany. In the valley of the Mugello, you can walk for days along the Apennines Florentine. In the course of the first ring, walkers can be housed in "places step" where there are public shelters in villas, farmhouses, former country schools, monasteries, camping or travel companies. The stopping place is almost always in small villages or in places attractive, accessible by car. The twenty-two secondary routes offer the possibility of a days-on-end of hiking, each highlighting a particular theme of environmental, historical and artistic routes. External linksSOFT (Florence Springs Trekking) Geography of Tuscany Tourist attractions in Tuscany Hiking trails in Italy {{trail-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soft Matter
Soft matter or soft condensed matter is a type of matter that can be deformed or structurally altered by thermal or mechanical stress which is of similar magnitude to thermal fluctuations. The science of soft matter is a subfield of condensed matter physics. Soft materials include liquids, colloids, polymers, foams, gels, granular materials, liquid crystals, flesh, and a number of biomaterials. These materials share an important common feature in that predominant physical behaviors occur at an energy scale comparable with room temperature thermal energy (of order of kT), and that entropy is considered the dominant factor. At these temperatures, quantum aspects are generally unimportant. When soft materials interact favorably with surfaces, they become squashed without an external compressive force. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, who has been called the "founding father of soft matter," received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1991 for discovering that methods developed f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coercivity
Coercivity, also called the magnetic coercivity, coercive field or coercive force, is a measure of the ability of a ferromagnetic material to withstand an external magnetic field without becoming Magnetization, demagnetized. Coercivity is usually measured in oersted or ampere/meter units and is denoted . An analogous property in electrical engineering and materials science, electric coercivity, is the ability of a ferroelectric material to withstand an external electric field without becoming polarization density, depolarized. Ferromagnetic materials with high coercivity are called magnetically ''hard'', and are used to make permanent magnets. Materials with low coercivity are said to be magnetically ''soft''. The latter are used in transformer and inductor magnetic core, cores, recording heads, microwave devices, and magnetic shielding. Definitions Coercivity in a ferromagnet, ferromagnetic material is the intensity of the applied magnetic field (''H'' field) required ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soft Water
Hard water is water that has a high mineral content (in contrast with "soft water"). Hard water is formed when water percolates through deposits of limestone, chalk or gypsum, which are largely made up of calcium and magnesium carbonates, bicarbonates and sulfates. Drinking hard water may have moderate health benefits. It can pose critical problems in industrial settings, where water hardness is monitored to avoid costly breakdowns in boilers, cooling towers, and other equipment that handles water. In domestic settings, hard water is often indicated by a lack of foam formation when soap is agitated in water, and by the formation of limescale in kettles and water heaters. Wherever water hardness is a concern, water softening is commonly used to reduce hard water's adverse effects. Origins Natural rainwater, snow and other forms of precipitation typically have low concentrations of divalent cations such as calcium and magnesium. They may have small concentrations of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
