ETYM Latin publicus, poblicus, from populus people: cf. French public. Related to People.
Not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole.
A keyword in some programming languages to signify that methods or variables can be accessed by elements residing in other classes or modules. See also class, keyword (definition 2), global variable, reserved word, scope. Compare private.
Množina: publics
A body of people sharing some common interest