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Object

By Stephen Chapman, About.com

Definition: An Object represents an individual, identifiable item. An object belongs to a class and has properties. For example we might have two objects - yesterday and today - each of which is a date. The properties of the two dates are different because the each has a different day of the week.
Examples:
var today = new Date;
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