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By Stephen Chapman, About.com

Definition: The window object is used to reference the current browser window. If you want to manipulate the current window in some way then the methods attached to this object are the way to do it. This is not a reserved word so you can declare your own variable or function called window but if you do then you will not be able to affect the current window in any way.
Examples:
window.focus();
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