Polyglot
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A polyglot is a source code or file which constitutes valid data in two or more distinct formats simultaneously.
An example of a polyglot file would be an image file which contains embedded ZIP data, which can be read by changing the file extension to .zip and opening it in a decompression program.
A polyglot program is source code which can be interpreted in two or more different programming languages.
