Software vs Clickstream - What's the difference?
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(computing) Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM). Compare hardware.
* 1958 , John W. Tukey, "The Teaching of Concrete Mathematics" in The American Mathematical Monthly , vol. 65, no. 1 (Jan. 1958), pp 1-9:
* 1995 , Paul Niquette, Softword: Provenance for the Word ‘Software’ :
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(computing, marketing) A profile of a user's activity in a web browser or other software, based on what is clicked.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 12, author=Dan Mitchell, title=Online Ads vs. Privacy, work=New York Times
, passage=“My clickstream data is sensitive information,” she told Mr. Zaneis, “and it belongs to me.” }}
As nouns the difference between software and clickstream
is that software is encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM). Compare hardware while clickstream is a profile of a user's activity in a web browser or other software, based on what is clicked.software
English
Noun
(-)- The "software " comprising the carefully planned interpretive routines, compilers, and other aspects of automative programming are at least as important to the modern electronic calculator as its "hardware" of tubes, transistors, wires, tapes and the like.
- As originally conceived, the word "software " was merely an obvious way to distinguish a program from the computer itself. A program comprised sequences of changeable instructions each having the power to command the behavior of the permanently crafted machinery, the "hardware."
Usage notes
Software'' is a mass noun (''some software'', ''a piece of software''). By non-native speakers it is sometimes erroneously treated as a countable noun (''a software'', ''some softwares ).Hyponyms
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* application * assembly * assembler * bug * code * coding * compilation * compiler * debugging * interpreter * linking * linker * open source * patch * programming * script * utilities * warezReferences
clickstream
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(en noun) (wikipedia clickstream)citation