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| chat (A real-time conversation via computer using short instant messages between two or more participants. When a participant types a line of text and then presses the Enter key, that participant's words appear on the screens of the other participants, who can then respond in kind); instant messaging (A method of real-time communication over the Internet in which a sender types a message to one or more recipients and the recipient immediately receives the message in a chat area) | |||