Artifact
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An artifact or artefact (see also spelling differences) is:
- A human-made object, such as a tool, weapon or ornament, especially those of archaeological or historical interest.
- A human-made object that is a prototype or standard of measurement.
- A structure or feature, visible only as a result of external action or experimental error. Also known as disturbance in biopotential signals.
Articles about various kinds of artifacts include:
- Artifact (archaeology), any object made or modified by a human culture, and later recovered by an archaeological endeavor
- Artifact (computer game), an online multiplayer video game
- Artifact (fantasy), in the fantasy genre, is usually a magical object so powerful that it cannot be duplicated or destroyed by ordinary means
- Artifact (medical imaging), misrepresentations of tissue structures seen in medical images
- Artifact (observational), any perceived distortion or other data error caused by the instrument of observation
- Artifact (software development), product documentation like requirements, design, test plans of a software application
- Artifacts (album) is a tribal ambient music album by the American artist Steve Roach
- Artifakts (bc), a minimal techno album by Canadian artist Plastikman
- Compression artifact, data compression artifact in computer science, resulting from lossy data compression
- Cultural artifact, a man-made object which gives information about the culture of its creator and users
- Digital artifact, a visible defect in a digital photo or video picture
- Iatrogenic artifact, a disease made up by doctors
- Social artifact, a product of individuals or groups (social beings) or of their social behavior
- Sonic artifact, in sound and music production, sonic material that is accidental or unwanted, resulting from the editing of another sound
- The Artifact is a weapon from Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil
- Virtual artifact, objects in the digital environment
- Artifacts (Band), Hip-Hop Duo from New Jersey
- Artefact (band) Black metal band from France
- Artifact, an object responsible for creating a Tangent Universe as described in the fictional book Philosophy of Time Travel from the film Donnie Darko.
- Artifact (Band) - Gotic Metal Band from Stavanger, Norway
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