1. an articulation of the group's sentiments. 2. The act or manner of producing a speech sound. 3. A speech sound, especially a consonant. 4. A jointing together or being jointed together. 5. The method or manner of jointing. 6. A fixed or movable joint between bones. 7. A movable joint between inflexible parts of the body of an animal, as the divisions of an appendage in arthropods. 8. A joint between two separable parts, as a leaf and a stem. 9. A node or a space on a stem between two nodes.
