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weblication

weblication noun: the act of publishing on the World Wide Web; a publication on the web.

Noun (1)

weblication (countable and uncountable, plural weblications)

  1. The act of publishing on the World Wide Web; a publication on the web.
    • Weblication is used in this article to describe any dissemination of information which occurs primarily via the Internet or World Wide Web. While weblications may be downloaded to local computers or magnetic media and/or printed onto paper by individual readers, this is secondary to their initial...1997 March, David Atherton, David Steffen, Sinai Yarus, “Scientific publishing : Paper or perish”, in Science Tribune
    • 2000 J.Q. Johnson, "Weblication & Future Publication," email posted to WEB4LIB list, 6 May 2000.
      My own feeling is that the clear trend is towards less restriction on prior informal sharing of research results, and the inclusion of unreferreed weblication as something allowed by more and more...
  2. A platform for publication on the WWW
    • An online transmedia platform, that includes professional journals, podcasts, news briefs, image galleries, and features, that reflect specific expertise.2013, "Weblication," Urban Dictionary

Noun (2)

weblication (plural weblications)

  1. (neologism) A computer application served on the World Wide Web.
    • The rapid growth of weblications—application-oriented software delivered as a service over the Web—has revealed a lack of effective guidelines for their design and implementation2007, Norshuhada Shiratuddin, Zanariah Idrus, Web Form Design Checklist Based on the Three-Layer Model
    • weblication : Jargon for "web application." Do not use. It could be confused with "web publication."2012, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Manual of Style, Pearson Education

Synonyms of weblication

Forms of weblication

pluralweblications

Origin of weblication

Blend of Web + publication.

Blend of Web + application.

Questions about weblication

What does weblication mean?
Weblication means the act of publishing on the World Wide Web; a publication on the web.
What part of speech is weblication?
Weblication is a noun.
What is the plural of weblication?
The plural of weblication is weblications.

Words near weblication in the dictionary

  1. weblebrities
  2. weblebrity
  3. webless
  4. weblessness
  5. Webley
  6. weblication
  7. weblications
  8. weblike
  9. weblink
  10. weblinks
  11. webliographies

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