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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Artifact \Ar"ti*fact\, n. [L. ars, artis, art + facere, factum,
     to make.]
     1. (Arch[ae]ol.) A product of human workmanship; -- applied
        esp. to the simpler products of aboriginal art as
        distinguished from natural objects.
  


     Syn: artefact.
          [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. Any product of human workmanship; -- applied both to
        objects made for practical purposes as well as works of
        art. It is contrasted to {natural object}, i.e. anything
        produced by natural forces without the intervention of
        man.
  
     Syn: artefact.
          [PJC]
  
     3. (Biol.) A structure or appearance in protoplasm due to
        death, method of preparation of specimens, or the use of
        reagents, and not present during life.
  
     Syn: artefact.
          [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     4. (Technology) an object, oservation, phenomenon, or result
        arising from hidden or unexpected causes extraneous to the
        subject of a study, and therefore spurious and having
        potential to lead one to an erroneous conclusion, or to
        invalidate the study. In experimental science, artifacts
        may arise due to inadvertant contamination of equipment,
        faulty experimental design or faulty analysis, or
        unexpected effects of agencies not known to affect the
        system under study.
  
     Syn: artefact.
          [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  artifact
       n : a man-made object taken as a whole [syn: {artefact}] [ant: {natural
           object}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  93 Moby Thesaurus words for "artifact":
     affair, ancient manuscript, antique, antiquity, archaism, article,
     brainchild, cave painting, child, coinage, composition, concoction,
     creation, creature, crowning achievement, dingus, distillation,
     dofunny, dohickey, dojigger, dojiggy, domajig, domajigger, doodad,
     dowhacky, effect, end product, eolith, eppes, essence, etwas,
     extract, flumadiddle, fossil, fruit, gadget, gigamaree, gimmick,
     gizmo, handiwork, hickey, hootenanny, hootmalalie, invention,
     issue, jigger, manufacture, masterpiece, masterwork,
     material thing, mezzolith, microlith, mintage, neolith,
     new mintage, object, offspring, opera, opus, opuscule, origination,
     outcome, outgrowth, paleolith, petrification, petrified forest,
     petrified wood, petroglyph, plateaulith, product, production,
     quelque chose, relic, reliquiae, remains, result, ruin, ruins,
     something, survival, thing, thingum, thingumabob, thingumadad,
     thingumadoodle, thingumajig, thingumajigger, thingumaree,
     thingummy, vestige, whatchy, widget, work
  
  

















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