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Ref: nodejs#6578
PR-URL: nodejs#8901
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
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Expand Up @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ The objects listed here are specific to Node.js. There are a number of
also globally accessible.

## Class: Buffer
<!-- YAML
added: v0.1.103
-->

<!-- type=global -->

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Used to handle binary data. See the [buffer section][].

## \_\_dirname
<!-- YAML
added: v0.1.27
-->

<!-- type=var -->

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will return `/Users/mjr/app`.

## \_\_filename
<!-- YAML
added: v0.0.1
-->

<!-- type=var -->

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`__filename` isn't actually a global but rather local to each module.

## clearImmediate(immediateObject)
<!-- YAML
added: v0.9.1
-->

<!--type=global-->

[`clearImmediate`] is described in the [timers][] section.

## clearInterval(intervalObject)
<!-- YAML
added: v0.0.1
-->

<!--type=global-->

[`clearInterval`] is described in the [timers][] section.

## clearTimeout(timeoutObject)
<!-- YAML
added: v0.0.1
-->

<!--type=global-->

[`clearTimeout`] is described in the [timers][] section.

## console
<!-- YAML
added: v0.1.100
-->

<!-- type=global -->

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Used to print to stdout and stderr. See the [`console`][] section.

## exports
<!-- YAML
added: v0.1.12
-->

<!-- type=var -->

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See the [module system documentation][] for more information.

## global
<!-- YAML
added: v0.1.27
-->

<!-- type=global -->

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scope; `var something` inside an Node.js module will be local to that module.

## module
<!-- YAML
added: v0.1.16
-->

<!-- type=var -->

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See the [module system documentation][] for more information.

## process
<!-- YAML
added: v0.1.7
-->

<!-- type=global -->

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The process object. See the [`process` object][] section.

## require()
<!-- YAML
added: v0.1.13
-->

<!-- type=var -->

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global but rather local to each module.

### require.cache
<!-- YAML
added: v0.3.0
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* {Object}

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Error.

### require.extensions
<!-- YAML
added: v0.3.0
deprecated: v0.10.6
-->

> Stability: 0 - Deprecated
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left untouched.

### require.resolve()
<!-- YAML
added: v0.3.0
-->

Use the internal `require()` machinery to look up the location of a module,
but rather than loading the module, just return the resolved filename.

## setImmediate(callback[, arg][, ...])
<!-- YAML
added: v0.9.1
-->

<!-- type=global -->

[`setImmediate`] is described in the [timers][] section.

## setInterval(callback, delay[, arg][, ...])
<!-- YAML
added: v0.0.1
-->

<!-- type=global -->

[`setInterval`] is described in the [timers][] section.

## setTimeout(callback, delay[, arg][, ...])
<!-- YAML
added: v0.0.1
-->

<!-- type=global -->

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