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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Publication \Pub'li*ca"tion\, noun [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) 2.0 [wn]:
publication
noun
1: a copy of a printed work offered for distribution
2: the act of issuing printed materials [syn: {issue}]
3: the business of publishing [syn: {publishing}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
237 Moby Thesaurus words for "publication": Christophany, Satanophany, account, acquaintance, advertisement, advertising, airing, albertype, angelophany, announcement, annual, appearance, attenuation, avatar, best seller, bimonthly, biweekly, blue book, book, book printing, booklet, bound book, briefing, broadcast, broadcasting, broadside, brochure, bulletin, chromotypography, chromotypy, chromoxylography, circumfusion, classic, collotype, color printing, coloring book, communication, communique, conveyance, daily, data, datum, declaration, definitive work, diffraction, diffusion, dilution, directory, disclosure, dispatch, dispensation, dispersal, dispersion, dissemination, dissipation, distribution, divergence, electronography, electrostatic printing, embodiment, enlightenment, epiphany, evaporation, evidence, evincement, expansion, expression, facts, factual information, familiarization, flier, flyer, folio, fortnightly, fragmentation, gen, general information, giving, graphic arts, gravure, great work, guidebook, halftone engraving, hand-out, handbill, handout, hard information, hardback, hebdomadal, history of printing, impartation, imparting, impartment, incarnation, incidental information, indication, info, information, instruction, intelligence, issuance, job printing, journal, juvenile, juvenile book, knowledge, leaflet, letterpress, letterpress photoengraving, light, limp-cover book, line engraving, lithography, lithogravure, lithophotogravure, magazine, magnum opus, manifestation, materialization, mention, message, mimeograph, monthly, newsletter, newspaper, nonbook, notebook, notice, notification, novel, offset, offset lithography, onset, opus, opuscule, opusculum, palaeotypography, pamphlet, paper, paperback, peppering, periodical, photo-offset, photochemical process, photoengraving, photogelatin process, photographic reproduction, photography, photolithography, phototypography, phototypy, photozincography, picture book, planographic printing, planography, playbook, pneumatophany, pocket book, prayer book, presentation, printing, printmaking, proclamation, production, promotional material, promulgation, pronouncement, pronunciamento, proof, propagation, psalmbook, psalter, publicity, publicizing, publishing, putting out, quarterly, radiation, release, relief printing, report, reporting, revelation, rotary photogravure, rotogravure, scattering, scatterment, serial, sharing, sheetwork, shotgun pattern, sidelight, sketchbook, soft-cover, songbook, sowing, spattering, splay, spread, spreading, sprinkling, standard work, statement, stencil, storybook, strewing, tabloid, telling, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, theophany, three-color printing, title, tome, trade book, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, two-color printing, typography, typolithography, volatilization, volume, weekly, white book, white paper, wood-block printing, word, work, writing, xerography, xeroprinting, xylotypography, zincography
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