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JavaScript

[ jah-vuh-skript ]
/ ˈdʒɑ vəˌskrɪpt /
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Digital Technology, Trademark.
a brand name for a high-level, object-oriented scripting language used especially to create interactive applications running over the internet.
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Origin of JavaScript

First recorded in 1995–2000; Java (in the trademarked sense “a programming language”) + script (in the computer sense “an executable section of code”)
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British Dictionary definitions for JavaScript

JavaScript2
/ (ˈdʒɑːvəˌskrɪpt) /

noun
trademark a scripting language especially applicable to the Internet

Word Origin for JavaScript

C20: from Java 2 + script
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