Definition of Publication

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Publication

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.

The act of offering a book, pamphlet, engraving, etc., to the public by sale or by gratuitous distribution.

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.

An act done in public.

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Publication Quotations

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Salvador Dali

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
Marshall McLuhan

Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.
Calvin Klein

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
Raymond Chandler

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
Augusten Burroughs

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
Madame de Stael

Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
Anne Tyler

I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on.
Ken Burns

The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990.
Douglass North

Publication Translations

publication in Dutch is afkondiging, openbaarmaking
publication in French is proclamation, parution, publication
publication in Italian is pubblicazione, notifica
publication in Latin is promulgatio
publication in Swedish is skrift, publikation

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