articulation vs hyphen

articulation

noun
  • A manner or method by which elements of a system are connected. 

  • The interrelation and congruence of the flow of data between financial statements of an entity, especially between the income statement and balance sheet. 

  • The manner in which something is articulated (tongued, slurred or bowed). 

  • The induction of a pupil into a new school or college. 

  • A joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged, for bending. 

  • The quality, clarity or sharpness of speech. 

  • The manner in which a phoneme is pronounced. 

hyphen

noun
  • Something that links two more consequential things. 

  • Someone who belongs to a marginalized subgroup, and can therefore described by a hyphenated term, such as "German-American", "female-academic", etc. 

  • An enclosed walkway or passage that connects two buildings. 

  • The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line. 

conj
  • Used to emphasize the coordinating function usually indicated by the punctuation "-". 

How often have the words articulation and hyphen occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )