articulation

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂r-tú-s Proto-Italic *artus Medieval Latin artus Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Proto-Italic *-kelos Medieval Latin -culus ▲ Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (árthron)sl. Medieval Latin articulus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Medieval Latin -ō Medieval Latin articulō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Medieval 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.

1. A joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged, for bending.

   “The articulation allowed the robot to move around corners.”

2. A joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged, for bending.
3. A manner or method by which elements of a system are connected.

   “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”

4. The quality, clarity, or sharpness of speech; the movement within the mouth that allows for those things.

   “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.”

5. The mechanism by which a sound is formed in the vocal tract.

   “manner of articulation”

   “place of articulation”

6. The manner in which a note is attacked.

   “The articulation in this piece is tricky because it alternates between legato and staccato.”

7. The interrelation and congruence of the flow of data between financial statements of an entity, especially between the income statement and balance sheet.

   “At the time the outstanding distinction that could be seen between Copeland-Fed on the one hand and Goldsmith-Friend on the other was that the flow-of-funds system explicitly included nonfinancial transactions in the statistical structure in direct articulation with financial flows and stocks.”

   “Particular income statement accounts (revenues and expenses) are linked to particular balance sheet accounts (assets and liabilities); that is, there is articulation between the income statement and the balance sheet.”

8. The induction of a pupil into a new school or college.

   “The latter reason ranked first in Item 1 as the reason for liking high school this year, giving emphasis to the fact that differences in the new school level may be either a factor of articulation, depending somewhat on how well informed the student is about his new level.”

   “A survey of college provisions for high school-college articulation cannot alone serve to describe the total effort that is being made or should be made in this direction.”