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Vocab: "Object"

Object is an overloaded word in JS. Here's a few of the meanings:

1. Anything that is not a primitive: "objects are stored by reference"
2. The native data structure with curley braces and key-value pairs: { key: value }
3. Object with a capital "o". THE object built into JS, it is the top parent in any inheritance chain.
4. "Object Oriented Programming". A popular programming paradigm, source of much confusion to JS programmers:
   • Classical OOP: The way most programming languages do OOP. Objects inherit their methods from Classes, and cannot (typically) be modified dynamically.
   • Prototypical OOP: The way JS does OOP. Objects are their own stand-alone entities, they inherit from other objects, and can be modified on the fly.

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