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The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
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articulation
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Articulation , in art and architecture, is a method of styling the joints in the formal elements of architectural design. Through degrees of articulation, each part is united with the whole work by means of a joint in such a way that the joined parts are ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "a joint or joining; setting of bones," from Old French articulation , from Medieval Latin articulationem (nominative articulatio ) "separation into joints," noun of action from past participle stem of articulare "to separate (meat) into joints," ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Articulation \Ar*tic`u*la"tion\, n. [Cf. F. articulation, fr. L. articulatio.] (Anat.) A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton. Note: Articulations may be immovable, when the bones are directly united (synarthrosis), or slightly movable, when ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable or uncountable English) A joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged, for bending. 2 (context countable English) A manner or method by which elements of a system are connected. 3 (context uncountable ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ clear articulation ▪ The report contains an articulation of the agency's mission statement. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Contesting articulations of musical practices could as a rule now arise only at the level of consumption. ...
Usage examples of articulation.
Acute articular rheumatism implies an affection of the articulations or joints.
Evidence of progress of memory, understanding and articulation in answers given.
Their articulation is without defect, but what they say is unintelligible because the words are mutilated and used wrongly.
One who is deaf from birth does not even learn to speak half a dozen sounds correctly without assistance, and the loss of speech that regularly follows deafness coming on in children who have already learned to speak, shows how inseparably the learning and the development of perfect articulation are bound up with the hearing.
On the whole, variety of articulation is on the increase as compared with the previous month, but the ability to put syllables together into words is still but little developed.
For the deficiency of articulation shows itself plainly when a new word is properly used, but pronounced sometimes correctly and sometimes incorrectly.
The once favorite monologues, pure, meaningless exercises of articulation, of voice and of hearing, are, on the contrary, falling off.
Thus the articulation was perfecting itself for weeks before it was understood.
Maupertuis, and which was long ago applied to the beginnings of articulation in children: e.
Not until later does the mechanical difficulty of articulation exert an influence, and this comes in at the learning of the compound sounds.
If one wishes to undertake an archaeological analysis of knowledge itself, it is not these celebrated controversies that ought to be used as the guidelines and articulation of such a project.
But since that articulation can be accomplished in many different ways, there must be, paradoxically, various general grammars: French, English, Latin, German, etc.
General grammar does not attempt to define the laws of all languages, but to examine each particular language, in turn, as a mode of the articulation of thought upon itself.
However, there does exist a certain amount of play between the articulation of language and that of representation.
The order of wealth and die order of natural beings are established and revealed in so far as there are established between objects of need, and between visible individuals, systems of signs which make possible the designation of representations one by another, the derivation of signifying representations in relation to those signified, the articulation of what is represented, and the attribution of certain representations to certain others.