JavaScript

[jah-vuh-skript]

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; 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 of javascript

All use open-sourced, mass-market code—the earliest run in Flash, the more recent in JavaScript.
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Jessica Dawson
June 3, 2014
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 5, 2014
JavaScript files on each page, uncompressed and without expires headers.
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Gregory Ferenstein
October 20, 2013

British Dictionary definitions for javascript

JavaScript

noun

trademark a scripting language especially applicable to the Internet

Word Origin for JavaScript

C20: from Java 2 + script

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JavaScript

Digital Technology, Trademark.

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