- contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"
- artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"
- not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes
- Man-made; of artifice; False, misleading; Unnatural
- Intelligence Unit. This is an informal grouping of researchers who cooperate on research into artificial intelligence. ...
- breeding has developed into a worldwide practice. Bulls with the genetic capacity to transmit high milk-producing ability to their female offspring are kept in studs. Dairy-farmer cooperatives usually operate the studs, with artificial insemination generally used. ...
- A quality of literature as defined by structuralism. Since literature is not a mimetic reflection of reality, structuralism focuses on identifying the conventions implicitly or explicitly shaping the reader's experience of meaning.
- A bid that means something other than what it sounds like. A convention.
- Type of synthetic bait rejected by a finicky fish because it is too large or too small or because it has the wrong shape, has the wrong coloration, or makes the wrong motion in the water.
- Created or produced by man, as opposed to “natural”.
- Any bait which is man-made. See Bait
- not natural; where the bid indicates information other than the suit bid
- same as unequal hours or seasonal hours. It is the term used by Bede as they are an artifice of the (Saxon) sundial.
- Unnatural. Manmade. Manufactured.
- Tournefort, Linnaeus
- (adj.) : not natural
- is ecosystem called man-made or man-engineered ecosystems (ecosystems created by humans).