Articulation

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.

2. The connection of the parts of a plant by joints, as in pods.

3. One of the nodes or joints, as in cane and maize.

4. One of the parts intercepted between the joints; also, a subdivision into parts at regular or irregular intervals as a result of serial intermission in growth, as in the cane, grasses, etc. Lindley.

5. The act of putting together with a joint or joints; any meeting of parts in a joint.

6. The state of being jointed; connection of parts. [R.] That definiteness and articulation of imagery. Coleridge.

7. The utterance of the elementary sounds of a language by the appropriate movements of the organs, as in pronunciation; as, a distinct articulation.

8. A sound made by the vocal organs; an articulate utterance or an elementary sound, esp. a consonant.