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Soft Key: A key below the phone's main display panel that performs special functions.

Soft Focus Lens: Lens, uncorrected for spherical aberrations, used to produce a soft focus effect.

Soft Hammer: A hammer made of brass, copper, lead or plastic to a non-marring finished surfaces on machines or workpieces.

Soft Focus: An entire image that is slightly out-of-focus.

Soft Dollars: Soft dollars are amounts that money managers, including mutual fund managers, pay out of their clients’ accounts to a brokerage firm to cover the cost of research the firm provides as well a . . . View Full Definition

Soft Currency: Constraints on spending that under certain circumstances can be violated or even viewed as constituting targets rather than absolute limits.

Soft Developer: Paper developer that can be used alone or in combination with other developers (two-bath development) to achieve more subtle contrast control.

Soft Handoff: When two base stations -- one in the cell site where the phone is located and the other in the cell site to which the conversation is being passed - both hold onto the call until the handoff . . . View Full Definition

Soft Jaws: Plastic, leather, lead, or aluminum covers on the jaws of a vise or pliers used to prevent marking and damage to the work.

Soft Money Loan: A loan where credit not cash is extended, usually by the seller carrying all or part of the financing.