what is the meaning of the word "this" in Jquery script
<p>Hello I'm a newcomer in JavaScript and JQuery language. I started to see some examples of JQuery script.</p>

<p>i have the following code segment:</p>

<pre><code> &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;

   $(document).ready(function(){

   $("p").click(function(){

   $(this).hide();

    });

  });

&lt;/script&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>My question: what is the meaning of word <strong>"this"</strong> in this line of code:</p>

<pre><code>          $(this).hide();
</code></pre>
