Meaning of artefact in English

artefact

mainly UK (US usually artifact)

/ˈɑː.tə.fækt/ us

/ˈɑːr.t̬ə.fækt/

an object that has been made by a person, such as a tool or a decoration, especially one that is of historical interest:

The museum's collection includes artefacts dating back to prehistoric times.

The house displays a number of paintings of the poet, as well as his typewriter and other personal artefacts.

science specialized

something that is seen in a scientific experiment or study that does not exist naturally, but has been caused by the way the experiment or study is done:

It should be remembered that a "household" is a statistical artefact created by data limitations.

Getting the data from two different groups provided a check on whether the results are an artefact of cultural differences, or if they are universal.

computing specialized

a fault in a digital image or in data that appears as a result of the methods used to create it:

Digital systems allow manipulation such as the removal of artefacts.

MPEG artefacts are not an issue in this transfer.

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Archaeologists have uncovered more than 100,000 artefacts at the site, ranging from arrowheads to jewellery.
As well as texts, inscriptions, and artefacts, studies of ancient India have utilised evidence from linguistics, population genetics, anthropology, and the study of myth.
He began collecting Native American artefacts.

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(Definition of artefact from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of artefact

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Considerable amounts of rubbish remained at the soil surface, including crushed lead batteries, copper artefacts, used food cans, and building materials.

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I have also employed interpolation when referring to damaged artefacts, and have opened some of the mouths of ancient mask faces whose lips are sealed.

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He is able to communicate directly with the ancients and the personified ancient artefacts.

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Similarly, computer music artefacts cannot be analysed apart from responses made by the environment in which they are presented.

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If constitutions are simply artefacts of democracy, however, then it seems difficult to accord them any independent weight.

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Care should be taken with this method as image artefacts or objects, such as the patient table, may distort the model.

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The aim, of course, is to produce artefacts that will operate effectively in unpredictable complex environments which may involve interaction with other agents.

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Both of these unwanted predictions turn out to be artefacts of the attempt to reproduce the foot-extrametricality analysis.

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Phonetic variations on the surface are considered artefacts of the context or performance-induced anomalies.

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Such artefacts mean that care and experience are required to interpret gels accurately, leading to a preference for loci containing tri- or tetra-nucleotide repeat motifs.

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The contact between a natural element and imagined human artefacts suggests nature modified by human will and action.

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In addition, the ensemble is aware of precursors that have made experimental audio-visual artefacts in a performance setting.

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Perhaps through the unfolding of the work, artefacts derived from acousmatic music aesthetics could be peeled away.

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I liked the artefacts added by the time-stretching; they helped create new sounds resembling a sort of mysterious mechanised beast.

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Artists, impressed with the manner in which the natural processes around them have shaped the environment, guide these to shape artefacts of their own.

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（尤指具有史學價值的）人工製品，製造物，手工藝品…

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