Articulation

1. n. A sound made by the vocal organs; an articulate utterance or an elementary sound, esp. a consonant.
2. n. A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.
3. n. The connection of the parts of a plant by joints, as in pods.
4. n. One of the nodes or joints, as in cane and maize.
5. n. 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.
6. n. The act of putting together with a joint or joints; any meeting of parts in a joint.
7. n. The state of being jointed; connection of parts.
8. n. The utterance of the elementary sounds of a language by the appropriate movements of the organs, as in pronunciation; as, a distinct articulation.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.