artifacts
Meaning of artifacts
noun
- An object made or shaped by human hand or labor.
- An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.
- Something viewed as a product of human agency or conception rather than an inherent element.
- A finding or structure in an experiment or investigation that is not a true feature of the object under observation, but is a result of external action, the test arrangement, or an experimental error.
The spot on his lung turned out to be an artifact of the X-ray process.
- An object, such as a tool, ornament, or weapon of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.
The dig produced many Roman artifacts.
- An appearance or structure in protoplasm due to death, the method of preparation of specimens, or the use of reagents, and not present during life.
- A perceptible distortion that appears in an audio or video file or a digital image as a result of applying a lossy compression algorithm.
This JPEG image has been so highly compressed that it has unsightly compression artifacts, making it unsuitable for the cover of our magazine.
Information about artifacts
- It is a name.
- The singular form of artifacts is: artifact.
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Hyphenation of artifacts
ar-ti-facts
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- artifacts is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Words that rhyme with artifacts
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