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Class

By Stephen Chapman, About.com

Definition: Class is an term used in object oriented programing to indicate the type of object. For example 1 is a number so it belongs to the number class, today is a date so it belongs to the date class.

A class also has methods attached to it which define how the properties of objects belonging to the calss may be manipulated.

Examples:
var today = new Date;
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