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articulator|ɑːˈtɪkjʊleɪtə(r)|
[n. of action (on L. analogies) f. L. articulā-re to joint: see -or.]
1. One who articulates or pronounces words.
1777Boswell Johnson (1831) IV. 8 An elderly housekeeper, a most distinct articulator, showed us the house.
2. techn. One who articulates bones, and mounts skeletons.
1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. vii, Articulator of human bones. 1883Nature 5 Apr. (Advt.) Articulator.—Wanted, a Person skilled in the Preparation and Mounting of Skeletons.
3. An apparatus used in prosthetic dentistry to obtain correct articulation of the teeth.
1851Amer. Jrnl. Dental Sci. Jan. 181 Cut a V shaped groove down the back of the cast, and oil it well, so that the articulator will not stick to it; then mix some plaster and drop it into the impression... The articulator should be about half an inch thick. 1953Faber Med. Dict. 47/2 Articulator, instrument for supporting the casts of the jaws while arranging artificial teeth on the plates. 1963G. F. Kantorowicz et al. Inlays, Crowns & Bridges vii. 74 A model of all teeth of the opposing jaw will allow assessment of the occlusion without the use of an articulator.
4. A movable vocal organ (as the tongue). (See quot. 1942.)
1942Bloch & Trager Outl. Ling. Anal. 13 The vocal organs are conveniently divided into two kinds: articulators, organs which can be moved more or less freely and can thus be made to assume a variety of positions; and points of articulation, fixed points or areas lying above the articulators, which these may touch or approach. 1943K. L. Pike Phonetics vii. 120 At the time in the production of some sound when any moveable part of the vocal apparatus causes any stricture..it becomes an articulator unless it is a closure performing the function of an initiator. 1946J. Murray in Q. Jrnl. Speech XXXII. 203/1 The second interpretation of ‘explosive’ pertains exclusively to plosions which characterize the syllabic thrust following closures of the glottis, or the articulators and glottis. |