ARTIFACT

Artifact

An artifact or artefact is "something made or given shape by man, such as a tool or a work of art, esp an object of archaeological interest". "Artifact" is the only spelling in North American English, but other varieties of English also accept "artefact" .

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artifact

Noun

  1. An object made or shaped by human hand.
  2. An object, such as a tool, weapon or ornament, of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.
    The dig produced many Roman artifacts.
  3. Something viewed as a product of human conception or agency rather than an inherent element.
  4. A structure or finding in an experiment or investigation that is not a true feature of the object under observation, but is a result of external action, the test arrangement, or an experimental error.
    The spot on his lung turned out to be an artifact of the X-ray process.
  5. An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.
  6. A perceptible distortion that appears in a digital image, audio or video file as a result of applying a lossy compression algorithm.
    This JPEG image has been so highly compressed that it has too many unsightly compression artifacts, making it unsuitable for the cover of our magazine.


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