json
/ˈd͡ʒeɪsən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Initialism of JavaScript Object Notation, a data format used to represent structured data. It is based on JavaScript syntax.
noun
A JSON document.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "[…] APIs and low-level software infrastructures in JavaScript enable the transformation of the information acquired from the user in a JSON data structure defined by the Schemas, then the data (JSONs and Schemas) is stored in the server and retrieved to the client (JavaScript) through websockets (full-duplex communications channels over a single TCP connection); […] Source Editor: an editor to upload or create JSONs, where the user writes the JSON (like the JSONs exported in Fig. 5 or copy and paste the JSON in the editor. JSONs are valid and can be saved if they agree with JSON Schema, if not, reports with errors are generated."
- "Imagine your service accepts the JSON documents (or constructs them based on user input) and stores them for public use. For big and bulky JSONs, you would dedicate a NoSQL database, hoping that NoSQL means NoSQL injections."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈd͡ʒeɪsən/
- British English: /ˈd͡ʒeɪsən/