All 4 Uses of
software
in
Cinder, by Marissa Meyer
- They'd been tiptoeing around each other since she'd returned home from the lab two days before, Adri trying to remind Cinder of her superiority by ordering her to defrag their apartment's entire mainframe and update all the software that they didn't even use anymore, while at the same time lurking around as if she were—almost, kind of—ashamed of what she'd done to Cinder.†
p. 189.4software = written programs that tell computers what to do
- It has to be a software issue.†
p. 194.9 *
- Software issues usually came down to reinstallation, but that would turn the android into a blank slate.†
p. 195.0
- Connecting her own wiring with a foreign object had always felt hazardous, like if she wasn't careful, her own software could be overridden.†
p. 195.5
Definition:
written programs stored in computer hardware (physical components of a computer) which instruct the hardware on what tasks to perform