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By Stephen Chapman, About.com

Definition: The document object is used to reference and manipulate the content of the current page. Exactly how the page is accessed depends on the Document Object Model that the browser uses. This is not a reserved word so you can declare your own variable or function called document but if you do then you will not be able to reference anything on the current web page.
Examples: document.write('text');

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