Artifact

n. tool; object; man made object (often referring to primitive tools)

An artifact or artefact (see also spelling differences) is:A human-made object, such as a tool, weapon or ornament, especially those of archaeological or historical interest.A human-made object that is a prototype or standard of measurement.A structure or feature, visible only as a result of external action or experimental error. Also known as disturbance in biopotential signals.Artefact is a fulltext information retrieval system capable of searching through databases containing documents written in a natural language  Articles about various kinds of artifacts include:Artifact (archaeology), any object made or modified by a human culture, and later recovered by an archaeological endeavorArtifact (computer game), an online multiplayer video gameArtifact (GBA game), a strategy game for the Game Boy AdvanceArtifact (fantasy), in the fantasy genre, is usually a magical object so powerful that it cannot be duplicated or destroyed by ordinary meansArtifact (medical imaging), misrepresentations of tissue structures seen in medical imagesArtifact (observational), any perceived distortion or other data error caused by the instrument of observationArtifact (software development), product documentation like requirements, design, test plans of a software applicationArtifacts (album) is a tribal ambient music album by the American artist Steve RoachArtifakts (bc), a minimal techno album by Canadian artist PlastikmanCompression artifact, data compression artifact in computer science, resulting from lossy data compressionCultural artifact, a human-made object which gives information about the culture of its creator and usersDigital artifact, a visible defect in a digital photo or video pictureIatrogenic artifact, a disease made up by doctorsSocial artifact, a product of individuals or groups (social beings) or of their social behaviorSonic artifact, in sound and music production, sonic material that is accidental or unwanted, resulting from the editing of another soundThe Artifact is a weapon from Doom 3: Resurrection of EvilVirtual artifact, objects in the digital environmentArtifacts (Band), Hip-Hop Duo from New JerseyArtefact (band)  black metal band from FranceArtifact (band) Gothic metal band from NorwayArtifact, an object responsible for creating a Tangent Universe as described in the fictional book The Philosophy of Time Travel from the film Donnie Darko.The Artifact (Eureka), a fictional object appearing in the TV series Eureka (TV series).
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Artifact /ar·ti·fact/ any artificial product; anything not naturally present, but introduced by some external source. ar·ti·fact or ar·te·fact n. 1. [more]Artifact - Community and Resources

Noun
1. a man-made object taken as a whole
(synonym) artefact
(antonym) natural object
(hypernym) object, physical object
(hyponym) article

Synonyms and related words:
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