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By Stephen Chapman, About.com

Definition: The onmouseout event is used to define actions to be taken when a mouse moves off of a particular object on the web page. This is not a reserved word so you can declare your own variable or function called onmouseout but if you do then you will not be able to detect mouse movement using this method.
Examples:
window.onmouseout=myFunction;
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