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Ajax (ā′jaks′)

noun

  1. a strong, brave Greek warrior in the Trojan War who kills himself when Achilles' armor is given to Odysseus
    called Ajax Telamon Ajax Tel′a·mon (tel′ə män′)
  2. one of the swiftest runners among the Greek warriors in the Trojan War
    called Ajax the Less

Etymology: L < Gr Aias

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Ajax Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • use: This could well be a side-effect of using ajax, to be fair.

Preposition: for

  • lot: It uses AJAX for a lot of these jobs so perhaps that's getting a little confused.

Modifies a noun

  • application: Debugging: AJAX applications are also difficult to debug because the processing logic is embedded both in the client and on the server.

Noun used with modifier

  • term: The term AJAX was coined last February to describe a combination of Web technologies, including JavaScript and XML.
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