Word Finder - articulation

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

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The articulation allowed the robot to move around corners.

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A manner or method by which elements of a system are connected.

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The quality, clarity or sharpness of speech.

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His volume is reasonable, but his articulation could use work.

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The manner in which a phoneme is pronounced.

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The manner in which something is articulated (tongued, slurred or bowed).

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

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

The astragalus has a pulley-like surface above for articulation into the tibia, but its lower surface is flattened and unites to a much greater extent with the navicular than with the cuboid, which bone is of comparatively less importance than in the Artiodactyles.

A preorbital vacuity of such dimensions as to exclude the lachrymal bone from articulation with the nasal.

File the chamfers on the sides of the slippers to allow articulation.

On the whole, if they cannot be taught articulation, the manual alphabet seems the best and most convenient means of communication.

The articulation between the tibia and astragalus is more complex than in other mammals, the end of the malleolus entering into it.

The research content is evidenced through the practitioner's own explicit articulation of these issues and the way in which they underpin their practice.

As the lead is plastic this construction is virtually an articulation.

And this does not involve the articulation of prior values.

The wide-ranging dynamics and athletic coverage of the keyboard were accompanied by careful articulation so we were always able to enjoy the detail.

The double articulation allows the legs to rise above the body, giving the whole structure an imposing presence.

In doing so, we should remember that AICs generally do not have a philosophical articulation of theological beliefs, including hermeneutics.

Transmission of the load from load cell to specimen was by means of compression platens and a four point bending jig with no articulation.

Before describing the process of teaching Helen to speak, it may be well to state briefly to what extent she had used the vocal organs before she began to receive regular instruction in articulation.

Velar articulation - we do this with the back of the tongue against the velum.

Isa Marrs is a board certified pediatric speech language pathologist who specializes in articulation and feeding disorders in children.

Articulation disorders are the most common problems seen in the area of speech and language.

Children with isolated speech disorders are often helped by articulation therapy, in which they practice repeating specific sounds, words, phrases, and sentences.

Many deaf children learning English have pronounced difficulties in articulation and speech quality, especially if they are profoundly deaf, since they get no feedback in how they sound.

There are assessments designed to evaluate speech production, such as the Goldman-Fristoe test of Articulation.

Children with expressive aphasia fail to speak at the usual age although they have normal speech comprehension and articulation.

However, depending on the severity of their hearing loss, they may continue to have difficulties with articulation and speech quality as well as with written language.

Typical treatment is called articulation therapy.

Language disorders include stuttering; articulation disorders, such as substituting one sound for another (tandy for candy); omitting a sound (canny for candy); or distorting a sound (shlip for slip).

Products to increase saliva may help articulation problems.

They also feature increased articulation and accessories.

These figures feature 20 points of articulation and they can carry standard Avatar action figures for maximum play value.

Vehicles have 22 points of articulation and can fire projectiles.

The catkin falls off entire, separating from the branch by an articulation.

Bracts are occasionally persistent, remaining long attached to the base of the peduncles, but more usually they are deciduous, falling off early by an articulation.

The catkin falls off in a mass, separating from the branch by an articulation.

In my animal pieces I focus on the physical articulation of creatures, whilst my figures are also allegorical.

There is a need for enhanced awareness in African countries on AIJ to facilitate the articulation of informed positions on the subject.

It would be necessary to reach a decision by May 2003 to enable articulation where necessary with the restructuring of the academic year project.

When this attachment takes place by an articulation, the petals fall off either immediately after expansion (caducous) or after fertilization (deciduous).

Here the articulation of the ocular segment is unusually distinct, and here two characters quite foreign to all the preceding groups come into view.

A difficulty naturally arises with regard to the fact that in reptiles the occipital condyle by which the skull articulates with the vertebral column is single, although composed of three elements, whereas in amphibians and mammals the articulation is formed by a pair of condyles.

At the present day they are extremely bare, and in this respect almost repellent; but the lack of colour is compensated by the delicacy of the outlines, the minute articulation of the minor ridges and valleys, and the symmetrical grouping of the several mountains.

The glenoid surface for the articulation of the mandible is greatly extended transversely, concave from side to side, convex from before backwards in front, and hollow behind, and is bounded posteriorly at its inner part by a prominent post-glenoid process.

There is a pair of large nodular sesamoids behind the metacarpo-phalangeal articulation, and a single large transversely-extended sesamoid behind the joint between the second and third phalanx, called the " navicular bone."

Its proximal end forms a shallow cup for articulation with the outer condyle of the humerus; the distal end bears a knob which fits into the radial carpal.

The constriction of this segment and its very perfect articulation with the propodeum give great mobility to the abdomen, so that the ovipositor or sting can be used with the greatest possible accuracy and effect.

The existence or non-existence of an articulation determines the deciduous or persistent nature of the calyx.

Some authors have held that the bone on which the occipital condyles have been found most developed in some labyrinthodonts (2) represents a large basi-occipital bearing two knobs for the articulation with the first vertebra, whilst the skull of the batrachians of the present day has lost the basi-occipital, and the condyles are furnished by the exoccipitals.

In the very nature of things, articulation is an unsatisfactory means of education; while the use of the manual alphabet quickens and invigorates mental activity, since through it the deaf child is brought into close contact with the English language, and the highest and most abstract ideas may be conveyed to the mind readily and accurately.

Evidently derived from the Chinese, of which it appears to be a very ancient dialect, the Annamese language is composed of monosyllables, of slightly varied articulation, expressing different ideas according to the tone in which they are pronounced.

The artificiality of the limit to the articulation of species was one of the points to which the downfall of Aristotle's influence was largely due.

As found in judgment it may exhibit differences within itself, but it is not two, but one, an articulation of unity, not a fusion, which could only be a confusion, of differences.

Munro supplemented this by another character easier of verification, and of even greater constancy, in the articulation of the pedicel in the Paniceae immediately below the glumes; whilst in Poaceae this does not occur, but the axis of the spikelet frequently articulates above the pair of empty basal glumes.

The articulation of the mandible to the quadrate-bone is such as to allow of a very considerable amount of lateral play, and, by a particular arrangement of the muscles which move the former, it comes to pass that so soon as the bird opens its mouth the point of the mandible is brought immediately opposite to that of the maxilla (which itself is movable vertically), instead of crossing or overlapping it - the usual position when the mouth is closed.

The chief modifications are the articulation of the deciduous blade on to the sheath, which occurs in all the Bambuseae (except Planotia) and in Spartina stricta; and the interposition of a petiole between the sheath and the blade, as in bamboos, Leptaspis, Pharus, Pariana, Lophatherum and others.