Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of artifact.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See artifact.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of artifact, perhaps more common in Commonwealth of Nations English.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. same as artifact.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a man-made object taken as a whole
Examples
“What if the cultural artefact is appropriated from a dominant culture by a member of another dominant culture?”
“SO you have bought the surround sounds amp & speakers. the speaker stands and all the wires. you have bought the best sound you can afford … … … … then settle on an inferior picture because of the size of tv, you say that you have limited floor space so what are you doing with it NOW, are you displaying some rare and ancient artefact, is your new stand taken up that same space you needed so much or do you just have more floor to clean.”
Mitsubishi’s New LaserVue TVs: First Impressions - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“The list is an artefact from a creative, experiential process.’”
“Writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science PNAS, they say the artefact is the earliest worked gold found not only in the Andes, but the Americas as well.”
“The plot has a group of characters searching for a priceless Native American artefact, which is pinched during a poker game at a casino.”
“~ Bursting dark energy's bubble -- "Theorist suggests mysterious force could be an 'artefact' of a void in space.”
“He arrived as I was puzzling over the design of an incomprehensible, for the moment, Gurlenian "artefact" brought in by Zealor.”
“Snapshot Artefact Treat content you created in wiki as an "artefact" • freeze project wiki after completing project: garden it right and move on • make a hard copy: • write wiki on a CD for each participant • publish selected wiki content is a separate website 25”
“Location: cz yes, yes. to be sure i will form the question once more. its not about flicker. degrain (degrain1) and probably v. coherence cause that when there is a small movement of bigger area, sometimes this area doesnot move as whole, but by parts. tried fft3dfilter, which was able to remove this 'artefact' but. but blurs alot. tried to have same frame with 1pixel up/dn/left/right shift and do temporalfiltering on them. or corrector on them.”
“You can select just what you want – and create an artefact which is and isn’t ‘real life.’”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘artefact’.
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EN - fine scholarly language
exhort, accretion, twenty-nine, atrophy, additive, brilliantly, interreligious, empiricism, pathologic, limitless, half-century, vigilant and 488 more...
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A Rarefaction of Factoids
List of genuine words and phrases containing the string fact-, -fact-, or -fact. Beginning with ventifact and stupefaction.
ventifact, stupefaction, fact, factoid, rarefaction, unsatisfactory, satisfactory, tumefaction, surfactant, artifact, benefactor, benefaction and 142 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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words I remember first encountering
fetlock, artefact, quandary, asyndeton, chiasmus, enjambement, vehemently, vituperative, decorum, sable, scansion, diapason and 75 more...
Tweets
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sarra I think that given the era and nature of the technology I might habitually use artifact to refer to JPEG arti/efacting, the same way conscientious BrE speakers use programme for most cases, including TV, but program for a computer program; also disc for round, flat things (including CDs, since they fairly resemble that previously more familiar object, the vinyl record), but disk for hard disk and floppy disk, where the platters themselves are hidden. Aug 18, 2008
plethora This is another of those situations where I couldn't tell you which spelling I favour, just because I've never really thought about it, it just comes to me. Aug 18, 2008
qroqqa 'Artefact' is considerably more common in BrE, 'artifact' in AmE. 'Artefact' is the earlier (and seems to have been invented by Coleridge!), and has -e- because it derives from a phrase, arte factum "made by art".
The -i- is by assimilation to the much more common (and much older) type seen in 'artifice', 'artificial', which are from actual compounds (not phrases) in Latin, where the linking vowel was always -i-. Aug 18, 2008
milosrdenstvi how does this differ from artifact? Aug 18, 2008