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Definition of Artifact
1. Noun. A man-made object taken as a whole.
Generic synonyms: Unit, Whole
Specialized synonyms: Article, Facility, Americana, Anachronism, Antiquity, Block, Button, Commodity, Good, Trade Good, Cone, Covering, Creation, Decker, Decoration, Ornament, Ornamentation, Electroplate, Excavation, Duplicate, Extra, Cloth, Fabric, Material, Textile, Facility, Installation, Fixture, Float, Insert, Inset, Instrumentality, Instrumentation, Bed, Layer, Lemon, Stinker, Line, Marker, Mystification, Opening, Cushioning, Padding, Plaything, Toy, Ready-made, Restoration, Flat Solid, Sheet, Sphere, Square, Squeaker, Slip, Strip, Construction, Structure, Surface, Thing, Track, Way, Weight, Building Material, Pavement, Paving, Paving Material
Derivative terms: Artefactual, Artifactual
Antonyms: Natural Object
Definition of Artifact
1. n. A product of human workmanship; -- applied esp. to the simpler products of aboriginal art as distinguished from natural objects.
Definition of Artifact
1. Noun. An object made or shaped by human hand. ¹
2. Noun. (archaeology) An object, such as a tool, weapon or ornament, of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation. ¹
3. Noun. Something viewed as a product of human conception or agency rather than an inherent element. ¹
4. Noun. 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. ¹
5. Noun. An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Artifact
1. an object made by man [n -S]
Medical Definition of Artifact
1. Something artificial, a distortion that does not reflect normal anatomy or pathology, not usually found in the body. For example: in radiology, the appearance on an X-ray of a surgical metal clip that obscures the clear view of an anatomical structure. (16 Dec 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Artifact
Literary usage of Artifact
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"The wooden pressure tool would slip, the tip would break, the wood was insecure
and would yield when pressed against the margin of the artifact, and "feel" ..."
2. The Queen Mary Psalter: A Study of Affect and Audience by Anne Rudloff Stanton (2001)
"... artifact Any manuscript must be understood within a variety of contexts, ...
just as a text or as a series of paintings, but as a functioning artifact. ..."
3. Landscape Archaeology in Southern Epirus, Greece 1 by James Wiseman (2003)
"Careful study of high-density and low-density artifact scatters has demonstrated
that they may preserve information about human activities in the past.2 As ..."
4. Indian Basketry by George Wharton James (1903)
"(I) DESIGNS OF artifact ORIGIN. The most common of designs gained from manufactured
objects, is that of the arrow point. This is met with in a thousand and ..."
5. The Prevention of Dental Caries and Oral Sepsis by Henry Percy Pickerill (1919)
"artifact LINES ON CANINE TOOTH, " STAINED " WITH GRAPHITE. become parallel with
the surface, and the ridge ceases to be distinguishable as such, ..."
6. The Weathering of Aboriginal Stone Artifacts, No. 1.: A Consideration of the by Newton Horace Winchell, Minnesota Historical Society (1913)
"The Simplest artifact an Edged Tool. It is plain, from a careful inspection of
the Kansas artifacts, that the simplest culture of aboriginal man was ..."
7. Spatial Statistics and Imaging by Antonio Possolo (1991)
"There is a noise artifact and an edge artifact which become increasingly severe as
... It is our conclusion that the noise artifact is due to the use of ..."
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