<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.</li><li>the act or process of articulating speech.</li><li>the adjustments and movements of speech organs involved in pronouncing a particular sound, taken as a whole.</li><li>any one of these adjustments and movements.</li><li>any speech sound, especially a consonant.</li><li>the act of jointing.</li><li>a jointed state or formation; a joint.</li><li>a joint or place between two parts where separation may take place spontaneously, as at the point of attachment of a leaf.</li><li>a node in a stem, or the space between two nodes.</li><li>a joint, as the joining or juncture of bones or of the movable segments of an arthropod.</li><li>the positioning of teeth in a denture, usually on an articulator, for correct occlusion.</li><li>the bringing of opposing tooth surfaces into contact with each other.</li><li>the relations of the upper and lower natural or artificial teeth in occlusion.</li><li>a measure of the effectiveness of a telephonic transmission system in reproducing speech comprehensibly, expressed as the percentage of speech units uttered that is correctly understood.</li></ul>