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JSON

UK/ˈd͡ʒeɪsən//ˈd͡ʒeɪsən/

JSON is the initialism of JavaScript Object Notation.

Noun

JSON (plural JSONs)

  1. A JSON document.
    • The default implementation of featureCheck.php returns plain strings—YES or NO—based on whether the receipts are valid or not. You might need to modify it to return in JSONs along with the URL of the content location.2012, Rob Napier, Mugunth Kumar, “Server Setup”, in Pushing the Limits with iOS 5 Programming: Advanced Application Development for Apple iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley...
    • The variety of data is increasing. It's all getting stored and nearly 85 percent of new data is unstructured data. The data can be in the form of tweets, JSONs with variable attributes and elements of which users may want to process selective ones.2013 August, Debarchan Sarkar, “Big Data – what’s the big deal?”, in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with Hadoop: Integrate Data between Apache Hadoop and SQL Server 2012 and Provide Business Intelligence...

Forms of JSON

pluralJSONs

Words formed from JSON

Words that rhyme with JSON

Questions about JSON

What does JSON mean?
JSON means a JSON document.
What is JSON the initialism of?
JSON is the initialism of JavaScript Object Notation.
What part of speech is JSON?
JSON is a noun.
How do you pronounce JSON?
JSON is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒeɪsən/ (US).
What is the plural of JSON?
The plural of JSON is JSONs.

Words near JSON in the dictionary

  1. JSIU
  2. JSL
  3. JSLC
  4. JSNI
  5. JSO
  6. JSON
  7. JSONP
  8. JSONs
  9. JSOW
  10. JSP
  11. JSPs

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