articulator
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
articulate + -or
Noun[edit]
articulator (plural articulators)
- One who, or that which, articulates or expresses.
- 2008 May 31, Joe Nocera, “At Exxon’s Can’t-Miss Meeting”, in New York Times[1]:
- He’s got a point; the same qualities that make Exxon Mobil the world’s best producer of oil and gas also cause it to be a terrible articulator of its own message.
- One who articulates bones and mounts skeletons.
- (dentistry) A mechanical device to which casts of the teeth are fixed, reproducing recorded positions of the mandible in relation to the maxilla.
- (phonetics) Any organ in the vocal tract used to articulate, produce speech.
- Synonym: speech organ
Translations[edit]
one who, or that which, articulates or expresses
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one who articulates bones and mounts skeletons
dentistry: mechanical device to which casts of the teeth are fixed
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phonetics: any organ in the vocal tract used to produce speech
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References[edit]
- “articulator”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “articulator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
articulātor
References[edit]
- articulator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)