- Programming language created by Rich Hickey
- Clojure is a Lisp dialect
- Clojure compiler is an executable JAR file, clojure.jar, which takes code written in the Clojure language and compiles it to Java Virtual Machine (JVM) bytecode
- Clojure is a hosted language
- Its programs are executed within a JVM and rely on the JVM for core features
- Clojure also targets JavaScript and Microsoft Common Language Runtime (CLR)