articulator
English
Etymology
articulate + -or
Noun
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.
Translations
one who, or that which, articulates or expresses
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Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) articulātor
- second-person singular future passive imperative of articulō
- third-person singular future passive imperative of articulō
References
- 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)