Publication

n.
  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.
  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.
    5. 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.