articulationnoun/ɑːˌtɪk.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/

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  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

  anatomymedicinesciencesA 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

  human-scienceslinguisticsphoneticsThe mechanism by which a sound is formed in the vocal tract.

  • manner of articulation
  • place of articulation
• 6

  entertainmentlifestylemusicThe manner in which a note is attacked.

  • The articulation in this piece is tricky because it alternates between legato and staccato.
  • This articulation is based on the rapid flutter of the tip of the tongue, with the tongue shaped as in the syllable tr or dr.
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  accountingbusinessfinanceThe 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.
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  educationThe 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.