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Definition: INARTICULATION

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. Inarticulateness.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "Inarticulation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references)

Etymology:Inarticulation \In`ar*tic`u*la"tion\, noun. [Compare to the French expression inarticulation.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: INARTICULATION

Domain Definition
Noah Webster [Noun] Indistinctness of sounds in speaking.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Wiktionary 1: [Noun] (education, US) Any point in the educational system in which the development of the individual is hindered. 1937, Fred Engelhardt and Alfred Victor Overn, Secondary Education: Principles and Practices [1], page 124: "Another traditional source of inarticulation is the requirement of an eighth-grade diploma for entrance to high school." (references)
  2: [Noun] (uncountable) The state of being inarticulate; inarticulateness. 1976, Uma Parameswaran, A Study of Representative Indo-English Novelists, ISBN 0706904109, page 81: "The inarticulation of a fond father in an undemonstrative family setting is brought out admirably..." (references)
  3: [Noun] An inarticulate or underarticulated utterance. 2002, Mad Macz, Internet Underground: The Way of the Hacker [2], page 111: "There are some methods of jargonification that became established quite early... These include verb doubling, sound-alike slang, the '-P' convention, overgeneralization, spoken inarticulations, and anthropomorphization." (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Definition: INARTICULATION

Part of SpeechDefinition
Noun1. Inarticulateness.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "INARTICULATION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references)

Etymology:Inarticulation \In`ar*tic`u*la"tion\, noun. [Compare to the French expression inarticulation.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: INARTICULATION

DomainDefinition
Noah Webster [Noun] Indistinctness of sounds in speaking.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Wiktionary1: [Noun] (education, US) Any point in the educational system in which the development of the individual is hindered. 1937, Fred Engelhardt and Alfred Victor Overn, Secondary Education: Principles and Practices [1], page 124: "Another traditional source of inarticulation is the requirement of an eighth-grade diploma for entrance to high school." (references)
 2: [Noun] (uncountable) The state of being inarticulate; inarticulateness. 1976, Uma Parameswaran, A Study of Representative Indo-English Novelists, ISBN 0706904109, page 81: "The inarticulation of a fond father in an undemonstrative family setting is brought out admirably..." (references)
 3: [Noun] An inarticulate or underarticulated utterance. 2002, Mad Macz, Internet Underground: The Way of the Hacker [2], page 111: "There are some methods of jargonification that became established quite early... These include verb doubling, sound-alike slang, the '-P' convention, overgeneralization, spoken inarticulations, and anthropomorphization." (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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