artifact

Etymology
Alteration of, from , from ( of ) +  (from ).

Noun

 * 1) An object made or shaped by human hand or labor.
 * 2) An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.
 * 3) Something viewed as a product of human agency or conception rather than an inherent element.
 * 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)  An object, such as a tool, ornament, or weapon of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.
 * 6)  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)  A perceptible distortion that appears in an audio or video file or a digital image as a result of applying a lossy compression or other inexact processing algorithm.
 * 8)  Any object in the collection of a museum.  May be used sensu stricto only for human-made objects, or may include ones that are not human-made.
 * 1)  An object, such as a tool, ornament, or weapon of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  A perceptible distortion that appears in an audio or video file or a digital image as a result of applying a lossy compression or other inexact processing algorithm.
 * 4)  Any object in the collection of a museum.  May be used sensu stricto only for human-made objects, or may include ones that are not human-made.
 * 1)  A perceptible distortion that appears in an audio or video file or a digital image as a result of applying a lossy compression or other inexact processing algorithm.
 * 2)  Any object in the collection of a museum.  May be used sensu stricto only for human-made objects, or may include ones that are not human-made.
 * 1)  Any object in the collection of a museum.  May be used sensu stricto only for human-made objects, or may include ones that are not human-made.
 * 1)  Any object in the collection of a museum.  May be used sensu stricto only for human-made objects, or may include ones that are not human-made.
 * 1)  Any object in the collection of a museum.  May be used sensu stricto only for human-made objects, or may include ones that are not human-made.

Usage notes
The spelling artifact is preferred by most American dictionaries, while is the preferred spelling in the Commonwealth. For example, Australia’s  lists artifact as a variant.

Translations

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 * Mandarin: 人工製品
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 * Esperanto: artefakto
 * Finnish:, , teennös
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 * Irish: déantán, déantúsán
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 * Telugu: artifact
 * Turkish: artefakt,


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 * Macedonian: артефакт
 * Malay: artifak
 * Norwegian: kulturgjenstand
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