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Publishing

Publishing is the process of producing literature, music or information and making it available to the general public.

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Publishing

System tray

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A feature introduced with MS-Windows95, the system tray is normally located at the right side of the task bar, next to the clock, and contains miniature icons for ready access to system functions, ...

Stereotype

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A printing plate, made by the process of taking a mould of composed type and casting type metal from the mold. Also, any conventional expression or unoriginal idea, as the simplified image or ...

Tilde

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A titulus superscription (~) placed over a consonant to indicate a palatal nasal sound, or over a vowel to indicate nasalization; see diacritic, punctuation. Also, a swung dash; see dash, apostrophe, ...

Appendix

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Any supplementary material at the end of a text; derived from "appendage". See back matter, reference marks. end sign.

Issue

Printing & publishing; Publishing

One of a series of things that is printed, promulgated, published, or distributed at one time, or all the copies of a series produced at one time; derived from "to go out", as the place or passage of ...

Charset

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The contraction for "character set", being a group of related alphabetic, numeric, symbolic, and other characters, including control codes. See character map, ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode, ANSI, ISO.

Universe

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The sum total of a magazine's potential audience -- usually devised by combining the paid circulations of similar magazines. The assumed universe for literary magazines is in the 750,000 - 1,000,000 ...

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