Artifact

Quick meaning: Artifact is a noun meaning An object made or shaped by human hand or labor.

Meaning

An object made or shaped by human hand or labor.

More Meanings

1. An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.
2. Something viewed as a product of human agency or conception rather than an inherent element.
3. (software engineering) Ellipsis of build artifact.
4. A finding or structure 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.
5. (archaeology) An object, such as a tool, ornament, or weapon of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.
6. (biology) An appearance or structure in protoplasm due to death, the method of preparation of specimens, or the use of reagents, and not present during life.
7. (computing, radiology) A perceptible distortion that appears in an audio or video file or an image as a result of applying a lossy compression or other inexact processing algorithm or of physical interference in an acquisition process.

Example Sentences

The dig produced many Roman artifacts.

The spot on his lung turned out to be an artifact of the X-ray process.

The very act of looking at a naked model was an artifact of male supremacy.

The opacity in his chest radiograph turned out to be an artifact due to the film.

Word Forms

• artifacts
• artefact

Synonyms for artifact

Depending on context, synonyms include artefact.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include artefact, monument, device, ordnance, component, explosive.

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