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articulator en · NOUN

Etymology

From articulate + -or.

Meanings

1. One who, or that which, articulates or expresses.
   • 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. 2008 May 31, Joe Nocera, “At Exxon’s Can’t-Miss Meeting”, in New York Times:
2. One who articulates bones and mounts skeletons.
3. A mechanical device to which casts of the teeth are fixed, reproducing recorded positions of the mandible in relation to the maxilla.
4. Any organ in the vocal tract used to articulate, produce speech.

Forms

Synonyms

speech organ

Translations (4)

pt articulador (one who, or that which, articulates or expresses) · fi puhe-elin (phonetics: any organ in the vocal tract used to produce speech) · fi artikulaattori (dentistry: mechanical device to which casts of the teeth are fixed) · fi esittäjä (one who, or that which, articulates or expresses)