n. The act of articulating, or the state of being articulated. The act of putting together so as to form a joint or joints. The uttering of articulate sounds.n. In a concrete sense: In anatomy, a joint, as the joining or juncture of bones or of the movable segments of an arthropod.n. In botany: A joint; a place where separation takes place spontaneously, as at the point of attachment of a deciduous organ, such as a leaf or the pedicel of a flower, or easily, as at the divisions of the stem of the horsetail. A node: applied either to the thickened joint-like part of the stem where a leaf is placed or to the space between two such points.n. In grammar, an articulate sound or utterance; especially, a consonant, as ordinarily affecting and marking syllabic division.