Definitions for artifact

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artifact ar·ti·fact

Spelling: [ahr-tuh-fakt]

IPA: /ˈɑr təˌfækt/

Artifact is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 177 anagrams from letters in artifact (aacfirtt).

Definitions for artifact

noun

1. any object made by human beings, especially with a view to subsequent use.
2. a handmade object, as a tool, or the remains of one, as a shard of pottery, characteristic of an earlier time or cultural stage, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.
3. any mass-produced, usually inexpensive object reflecting contemporary society or popular culture:
4. a substance or structure not naturally present in the matter being observed but formed by artificial means, as during preparation of a microscope slide.
5. a spurious observation or result arising from preparatory or investigative procedures.
6. any feature that is not naturally present but is a product of an extrinsic agent, method, or the like:

Origin of artifact

1815-25; variant of artefact Latin phrase arte factum (something) made with skill. See art¹, fact

Examples for artifact

Today, a lack of provenance often means one of two things: an artifact is forged or an artifact was illegally acquired.

The nature which science defines is an artifact or construct.

The essay itself seems an artifact of a dying tradition, and not just in its grandiosity.

Given how infrequently new copies of the map appeared on the market, collectors would bid handsomely for the artifact.

There is a huge overlap, and this firewall is very much an artifact.

The artifact and the experience leading to it appear as different entities.

Its skin looked so exactly like that of a carabao that uncharitable persons had suggested that it was an artifact.

Now the other extreme has the artifact versus the naturifact and the talk of culture in such loose terms as preblade industries.

This isn't a policy in any coherent sense of that word; it's an artifact of resentment, a self-defeating relic from another era.

From the Tank Site the artifact yield per cubic foot almost doubled that of the 1947 season.