articulator

articulate +‎ -or

articulator (plural articulators)

1. One who, or that which, articulates or expresses.
   • 2008 May 31, Joe Nocera, “At Exxon’s Can’t-Miss Meeting”, in New York Times‎:

     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.

2. One who articulates bones and mounts skeletons.
3. (dentistry) A mechanical device to which casts of the teeth are fixed, reproducing recorded positions of the mandible in relation to the maxilla.

articulātor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of articulō
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of articulō

• articulator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)