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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
articulation
 
SYLLABICATION:ar·tic·u·la·tion
PRONUNCIATION:  är-tky-lshn
NOUN:1. The act of vocal expression; utterance or enunciation: an articulation of the group's sentiments. 2a. The act or manner of producing a speech sound. b. A speech sound, especially a consonant. 3a. A jointing together or being jointed together. b. The method or manner of jointing. 4. Anatomy a. A fixed or movable joint between bones. b. A movable joint between inflexible parts of the body of an animal, as the divisions of an appendage in arthropods. 5. Botany a. A joint between two separable parts, as a leaf and a stem. b. A node or a space on a stem between two nodes.
OTHER FORMS:ar·ticu·la·tory (-l-tôr, -tr) , ar·ticu·lative (-ltv, -l-tv) —ADJECTIVE
 
 
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