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Articulative

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ar·tic·u·la·tion  (är-tky-lshn)
n.
1. The act of vocal expression; utterance or enunciation: an articulation of the group's sentiments.
2.
a. The act or manner of producing a speech sound.
b. A speech sound, especially a consonant.
3.
a. A jointing together or being jointed together.
b. The method or manner of jointing.
4. Anatomy
a. A fixed or movable joint between bones.
b. A movable joint between inflexible parts of the body of an animal, as the divisions of an appendage in arthropods.
5. Botany
a. A joint between two separable parts, as a leaf and a stem.
b. A node or a space on a stem between two nodes.

ar·ticu·la·tory (-l-tôr, -tr), ar·ticu·lative (-ltv, -l-tv) adj.
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Adj.1.articulative - of or relating to articulation; "articulatory features"; "articulatory phonetics"


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This information quickly can identify motives and other articulative facts essential to determining an individual's victimology or suspectology.
Menken's genius lay within her constant maintenance of her physical and narrative presence as an articulative space from which competing gender and racial discourses might be expressed.
When attempting to bring out bass lines in proper proportion, pianists benefit from the instrument's construction as far as volume is concerned, but they must listen particularly closely for articulative clarity in the somewhat muddy-sounding lower registers.
 
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