Word.ws English Dictionary

soft references

soft references is the plural of soft reference.

Meaning of soft reference

Noun

soft reference (plural soft references)

  1. A weak reference that is garbage-collected less aggressively.

Questions about soft references

What is soft references the plural of?
Soft references is the plural of soft reference.

Words near soft references in the dictionary

  1. soft reboot
  2. soft reboots
  3. soft redirect
  4. soft redirects
  5. soft reference
  6. soft references
  7. soft release
  8. soft reset
  9. soft resets
  10. soft resetting
  11. soft return

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: soft references (page history and authors); soft reference (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “soft references.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/soft_references. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.