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artifact
English
Etymology
Alteration of artefact, from Italian artefatto, from Latin arte (“by skill”) (ablative of ars (“art”)) + factum (“thing made”) (from facio (“to make, do”)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???t?fækt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???t?fækt/, [-??-], [-??-]
- Hyphenation: ar?ti?fact
Noun
artifact (plural artifacts)
- An object made or shaped by human hand or labor.
- An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.
- Something viewed as a product of human agency or conception rather than an inherent element.
- 2004, Philip Weiss, American Taboo: A Murder In The Peace Corps
- The very act of looking at a naked model was an artifact of male supremacy.
- 2004, Philip Weiss, American Taboo: A Murder In The Peace Corps
- 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.
- (archaeology) An object, such as a tool, ornament, or weapon of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.
- (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.
- (computing) A perceptible distortion that appears in an audio or video file or a digital image as a result of applying a lossy compression algorithm.
Usage notes
The spelling artifact is preferred by most American dictionaries, while artefact is the preferred spelling in Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary with artifact listed as a variant.
Alternative forms
- artefact (Australian and British spelling)
Translations
Further reading
- artifact in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “artifact”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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relics
English
Noun
relics
- plural of relic
Verb
relics
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of relic
Anagrams
- slicer
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