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By Stephen Chapman, About.com

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