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articulation definition

ar·ticu·la·tion (är tik′yo̵̅o̅ lās̸hən, -yə-)

noun

  1. a jointing or being jointed
  2. the way in which parts are joined together
    1. utterance or enunciation; way of talking or pronouncing
    2. the moving of articulators to produce speech sounds
  3. a spoken sound, esp. a consonant
  4. a joint between bones or similar parts
  5. Bot.
    1. a joint in a stem or between two separable parts, as a branch and leaf
    2. a node or space between two nodes

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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