Artifact
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Artifact or artefact may refer to:
- Artifact (archaeology), any object made or modified by a human culture, and later recovered by an archaeological endeavor
- Artefact (band) black metal band from France
- Artifact (band), a band from Norway
- Artifact (error), an error or misrepresentation introduced by a technique and/or technology
- 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), one of many kinds of tangible byproduct produced during the development of software
- The Artifact (Eureka), a fictional object appearing in the TV series Eureka
- Compression artifact, data compression artifact in computer science, resulting from lossy data compression
- Cultural artifact, a human-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
- Virtual artifact, objects in the digital environment