article

:  to bind by articles (as of apprenticeship) (see ¹article 1c) He went to Durham Grammar School, was articled to a solicitor in Newcastle at seventeen, moved to another firm in London at twenty … — T. J. Binyon

1 :  a piece of writing other than fiction or poetry that forms a separate part of a publication (as a magazine or newspaper)

2 :  one of a class of things articles of clothing

3 :  a word (as a, an, or the) used with a noun to limit it or make it clearer

4 :  a separate part of a document The first article of the Constitution of the United States creates the legislative branch.

1a :  a separate and usually numbered or otherwise marked section (as of a statute, indictment, will, or other writing) b :  a separate point, charge, count, or clause c :  a condition or stipulation in a document (as a contract)

2 :  a document setting forth the terms of an agreement —usually used in plural articles of merger

3 pl :  articles of incorporation