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Noun
/ˈärtəapartheidfakt/,
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artefacts, plural; artifacts, plural;
  1. An object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest
    • - gold and silver artifacts
  2. Such an object as distinguished from a similar object naturally produced

  3. Something observed in a scientific investigation or experiment that is not naturally present but occurs as a result of the preparative or investigative procedure
    • - widespread tissue infection may be a technical artifact
  1. (artefact) artifact: a man-made object taken as a whole
  2. (Artefact (archaeology)) An artifact or artefact (see spelling differences) is any object made or modified by a human. In archaeology, an artifact is an object recovered by some archaeological endeavor, which may have a cultural interest. ...
  3. (Artefact (band)) Artefact was a black metal band from Nice, France. According to the band itself, its name is taken from the medieval fantasy universe, and evokes a magical item.
  4. (artefact) Alternative spelling of artifact, perhaps more common in Commonwealth English
  5. (Artefact) In parapsychology, false evidence of paranormal phenomena, due to some extraneous normal influence.
  6. (Artefact) A flaw or defect in a digital image
  7. (Artefact) An unwanted visual aberration in a video image.
  8. (Artefact) Any object made, modified, or used by humans.
  9. (Artefact (false indication)) A spurious indication on a radiograph arising e.g. from faults in the manufacturing, handling, exposing or processing of a film.
  10. (Artefact) (artifact, arty, artie). Pre-collapse equipment recovered from wreckage drifting in deep space. Artefacts can be the best equipment pilots can get, but the majority of artefacts recovered are useless. Note that artefact and wreckage may be interchangable in certain circumstances. ...
  11. (Artefact) An object created by an artistic or a design process; a work of art. The question of what constitutes a work of art is a fluid one. ...
  12. (Artefact) An object fashioned by human hand. Examples of artefacts made for taking measurements are a weight and a measuring rod.
  13. (Artefact) Any element from the collections of a museum, which falls under that museum's mission to preserve and make better known these elements: objects (clothes, furniture, toys, etc.), images (photographs, paintings, engravings, etc.) or manuscripts (letters, diaries, etc.). ...
  14. (Artefact) Any product made by human hands or caused to be made through human actions.
  15. (Artefact) Insufficient available ECG data to analyze. Possibly due to inadequate skin preparation, poor contact of electrodes and/or inaccurate positioning of electrodes on the chest.
  16. (Artefact) an artificial result, in particular a mistaken or biased result produced by the measuring instruments rather than by the phenomenon being studied, or something the researcher created by the way he or she gathered or analysed the data.
  17. (Artefact) finds are also common in some forests. These include wooden artefacts such as pigeon troughs and palisade posts, stone adzes, hangi stones etc.
  18. (Artefact) from the Latin: arte, "by skill" + factum, "thing made". An object made by human work or art, especially by skilled artesans, for simple or practical purposes; something characteristic of reality, actuality, truth ("fact" as distinct from "fancy").
  19. (artefact) Any object, landscape, person or occurrence tied to an event by physical or temporal proximity. Artefacts serve as direct portals to the event
  20. (artefact) The physical embodiment of the work, e.g. a book, painting, video cassette. Cf. compatibility.
  21. (artefact) an object from the past
  22. (artefact) any unwanted feature in a scanned image, like speckles or noise.
  23. In relation to a digital image, describes "unnatural" distortions that are introduced into an image due to some form of over processing. There are a number of different types of image artefacts. ...
  24. Archaeologists commonly refer to culturally produced objects as artefacts. Artefacts can be manufactured objects such as pots, spoons, coins or by-products such as kiln wasters or slag. Or artefacts can be natural items that have been modified such as cut deer bones or carved wood and stone. ...
  25. When an image is stored in your camera's memory it has to be compressed to fit, usually in a JPEG File, and in the process some information is inevitably lost. When the image is uncompressed for viewing, noise creeps in and appears as angular blocks in the image, which are known as artefacts.