JavaScript

[jah-vuh-skript] /ˈdʒɑ vəˌskrɪpt/

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Digital Technology, Trademark.

the proprietary name of a high-level, object-oriented scripting language used especially to create interactive applications running over the Internet.

Origin of JavaScript

1995-2000

1995-2000; Java (in the trademarked sense “a programming language”) + script (in the computer sense “an executable section of code”)

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Examples from the Web for JavaScript

Contemporary Examples

AARON KOBLIN: We do a lot of experiments with HTML5, JavaScript and WebGL.

Hanging Out With the Minds Behind Google Doodles and Chrome Experiments Douglas Wolk May 4, 2014
JavaScript files on each page, uncompressed and without expires headers.

Obamacare’s Rollout Is a Disaster That Didn’t Have to Happen Gregory Ferenstein October 19, 2013
All use open-sourced, mass-market code—the earliest run in Flash, the more recent in JavaScript.

Would You Buy an Internet Website as Art? Jessica Dawson June 2, 2014

British Dictionary definitions for JavaScript

JavaScript²

/ˈdʒɑːvəˌskrɪpt/

noun

trademark a scripting language especially applicable to the Internet

Word Origin

C20: from Java2 + script

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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