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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Publication \Pub`li*ca"tion\, n. [L. publicatio confiscation: cf F. publication. See {Publish}.] 1. The act of publishing or making known notification to the people at large either by words writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts. 2. The act of offering a book, pamphlet, engraving, etc., to the public by sale or by gratuitous distribution. The publication of these papers was not owing to our folly, but that of others --Swift. 3. That which is published or made known especially, any book, pamphlet, etc., offered for sale or to public notice; as a daily or monthly publication. 4. An act done in public. [R. & Obs.] His jealousy . . . attends the business, the recreations, the publications, and retirements of every man. --Jer. Taylor. {Publication of a libel} (Law), such an exhibition of a libel as brings it to the notice of at least one person other than the person libeled. {Publication of a will} (Law), the delivery of a will as his own by a testator to witnesses who attest it From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: publication n 1: a printed work offered for distribution 2: the act of issuing printed materials [syn: {issue}] 3: the business of publishing [syn: {publishing}]
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