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articulation

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A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.

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

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

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.

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

The state of being jointed; connection of parts.

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

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

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There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual. John Williams

Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting. Tony Harrison

The thought process can never be complete without articulation. Stephen King

There are thoughts in this field of the beyond of consciousness, and it is impossible to represent these thoughts other than in the same homology of determination in which the subject of the I think finds himself in relation to the articulation of the I doubt. Jacques Lacan

No great philosopher has so much to offer in the way of clarification and articulation of basic ecological attitudes as Baruch Spinoza. Baruch Spinoza

When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed. Rem Koolhaas

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