articulation
/ɑɹˌtɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.09 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged, for bending.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged, for bending.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The quality, clarity, or sharpness of speech; the movement within the mouth that allows for those things.
Uncountable
noun
The interrelation and congruence of the flow of data between financial statements of an entity, especially between the income statement and balance sheet.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The articulation allowed the robot to move around corners."
- "In this paper, we make a step forward, by considering term to query articulations, that is articulations relating queries of one source to terms in another"
- "His volume is reasonable, but his articulation could use work."
- "Take Jools Lebron, whose viral craze over her articulation of “very demure” made its way throughout the pop culture lexicon like wildfire."
- "manner of articulation"
- "place of articulation"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂r-tú-s Proto-Italic *artus Latin artus Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Proto-Italic *-kelos Latin -culus ▲ Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (árthron)sl. Latin articulus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin articulō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Medieval Latin articulātiōder. Old French articulacionbor. Middle English articulacioun English articulation From Middle English articulacioun, from Old French articulacion, from Medieval Latin articulatio. Equivalent to articulate + -ion.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₂er-, articulacioun, articulacion, articulatio
- Suffix: articulate
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɑɹˌtɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
- British English: /ɑːˌtɪk.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
abarticulation
articulational
articulationism
articulationist
coarticulation
disarticulation
exarticulation
hyperarticulation
hypoarticulation
inarticulation
interarticulation
misarticulation