Used in a Sentence

jointed

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for jointed.

Editorial note

Not so much for a small number of DoF, but for multi-jointed arms or humanoid robots, or hexapods and similar.

Examples16
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Having joints.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of jointed gathered in one view.

adjective

Having joints.

adjective

(Ireland, slang, of an entertainment venue) Extremely full of people, packed, chockablock.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for jointed.

adjective

(Ireland, slang, of an entertainment venue) Extremely full of people, packed, chockablock.

Example sentences

1

Not so much for a small number of DoF, but for multi-jointed arms or humanoid robots, or hexapods and similar.

2

On flush, jointed boards, they are a permanent jig to hold the ends in vertical alignment.

3

And IMO, it looks nicer than having several individual solid-wood boards jointed together in parallel.

4

Microsoft jointed an NGO that pushes nuclear that most people have never heard of.

5

It's the vocal equivalent of a triple-jointed arm, or a horizon that's different on the left and right side of a portrait.

6

Picture a daddy-longlegs spider, but with four jointed legs about one metre long (three always touching the ground while the fourth moves position).

7

For example, when you are trying to create a controller for a many-jointed robot in a complex simulation with a high-level objective function.

8

Smartass remark aside, I've successfully jointed with a table saw and a router, and planed with a drum sander.

9

Yesterday I made a feature request to slinkset to be able to sort users by date jointed.

10

Non-humanoid robots would be a better venture since their differently jointed arms and legs would provide better options for flexibility, motion, and control.

11

Some of the first CGI was input using metal jointed armatures with potentiometers in every joint which is a form of 'rigid' transforms.

12

For this to work I think the drive-chain would have to be a jointed drive shaft.

Quote examples

1

My dad had it so lightly he was just considered “double jointed”.

2

It turns out that making a space suit is a really hard problem -- and that "obvious" solutions, like hard jointed hard bodies, don't work.

3

Especially the "QA gets no respect" bit; I jointed Lucent for a QA including programming QA stuff job and it was a miserable, never again, I advise all my friends to avoid it like the plague.

4

I can get the thin version of that worked into the joint of a completely rusted-stuck pair of box-jointed pliers and have them working very well (and looking fairly decent, though not "new") in a few minutes with a shop rag.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use jointed in a sentence?

Not so much for a small number of DoF, but for multi-jointed arms or humanoid robots, or hexapods and similar.

What does jointed mean?

Having joints.

What part of speech is jointed?

jointed is commonly used as adjective.