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Artifact

/ˈɑːtɪfækt/

An object made or shaped by human hand or labor.

📖 Definitions of "Artifact"

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.
"The spot on his lung turned out to be an artifact of the X-ray process."

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