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Articulation   /ˌɑrtɪkjəlˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Articulation

noun
1.
The aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech.
2.
The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made.  Synonyms: join, joint, junction, juncture.
3.
Expressing in coherent verbal form.  Synonym: voice.  "I gave voice to my feelings"
4.
(anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion).  Synonyms: articulatio, joint.
5.
The act of joining things in such a way that motion is possible.






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"Articulation" Quotes from Famous Books



... his teeth, Humboldt's articulation was indistinct—he talked very rapidly. His hair was thin and very white, his eyes very blue, his nose too broad and too flat; yet he was a handsome man. He wore a white necktie, a black dress-coat, buttoned up, but not so much so that it hid a figured ...
— Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals • Maria Mitchell

... years she truly claimed; nineteen, in a soft colored evening frock like the one she had on to-night, was about what one would have guessed. Then, you never would have believed, short of discovering the fact yourself, how strong she was; her slenderness and the fine articulation of her joints made her look fragile. Her coloring helped the illusion along, the clear unsophisticated blue of her eyes, the pallor of her hair that the petals of a tea-rose could have got lost ...
— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster

... relief came. The circle opened, and a little elderly man, who had evidently come in haste, confronted me, and, bowing very politely, addressed me in English. His voice was the most pitiable abortion of a voice I had ever heard. While having all the defects in articulation of a child's who is just beginning to talk, it was not even a child's in strength of tone, being in fact a mere alternation of squeaks and whispers inaudible a rod away. With some difficulty I was, however, able to follow ...
— To Whom This May Come - 1898 • Edward Bellamy

... and articulation of a word, although indispensable to utterance, and therefore a necessary part of it, are of little or no value in themselves; for our interest is centered upon the meaning or upon the action which is expected to result from its understanding. We do not attend to the quality and ...
— The Principles Of Aesthetics • Dewitt H. Parker

... lifting up into the air his right hand wholly open and displayed, put the thumb thereof, even close unto its first articulation, between the two third joints of the middle and ring fingers, pressing about the said thumb thereof very hard with them both, and, whilst the remanent joints were contracted and shrunk in towards the wrist, he stretched forth with ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais


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