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Articulation(medicine)
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articulation(dictionary)
Articulation(health)
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incudomalleolar articulation(medicine)
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articulation (iou)



articulation noun. LME.
[French, or Latin articulatio(n-), formed as ARTICULATED: see -ATION.]
I.
The action or process of joining; the state of being jointed; a mode of jointing. LME.
A joint; esp. a structure whereby two bones, or parts of an invertebrate skeleton, are connected in the body, whether rigidly or flexibly. LME.
Movement by a flexible joint. rare. M16.
E. Linklater As if the American hip and knee gave free articulation all round the circle.
Each of the segments of a jointed body; the part between two joints. M17.
II.
The production or formation of speech sounds, words, etc.; articulate utterance or expression; speech. E17.
manner of articulation, mode of articulation Phonetics: with or without friction etc. place of articulation, point of articulation Phonetics the place at which obstruction of the air passage takes place in the production of a consonant.
T. S. Eliot Contending and contentious orators, who have not even arrived at the articulation of their differences. J. Lyons The oldest, and still the most common, method of phonetic description is that made in terms of 'articulation' by the speech-organs. J. Barnes He had a whiny, imprecise voice..; what seemed at first a regional inflection turned out to be only casual articulation.
A speech sound; an articulate utterance. M18.
Articulacy, distinctness. rare. L18.
W. Cowper The looks and gestures of their griefs and fears Have all articulation in his ears.