artifact

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɑːtɪfækt/    美 /ˈɑɹtɪfækt/|[-ɾɪ-]|[-ɾə-]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An object made or shaped by human hand or labor. US
    — Given increasing investment in an IT (information technology) artifact (i.e., online service website), it is becoming important to retain existing customers.
  2. An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin. US
  3. Something viewed as a product of human agency or conception rather than an inherent element. US
    — The very act of looking at a naked model was an artifact of male supremacy.
  4. 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. US
    — The spot on his lung turned out to be an artifact of the X-ray process.
  5. An object, such as a tool, ornament, or weapon of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation. US
    — The dig produced many Roman artifacts.
  6. 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. US
  7. A perceptible distortion that appears in an audio or video file or an image as a result of applying a lossy compression or other inexact processing algorithm or of physical interference in an acquisition process. US
    — This JPEG image has been so highly compressed that it has unsightly artifacts, making it unsuitable for the cover of our magazine.
  8. Ellipsis of build artifact. US,abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
  9. Any object in the collection of a museum. May be used sensu stricto only for human-made objects, or may include ones that are not human-made. US

词形变化

artifacts plural artefact alternative,UK

词汇关系

近义词
artefact artifact
上位词
entity object item
下位词
tool instrument device clothing shoe toiletry jewelry weapon artwork invention building furniture vehicle stationery
衍生词
artifacted artifacting artifactual build artifact cryoartifact ecofact geofact microartifact
部分词
material

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂értis
Proto-Italic *artis
Latin ars
Latin arte
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Latin faciō
Latin factum
Vulgar Latin *artefactum
Italian artefattoder.
English artifact
Alteration of artefact, from Italian artefatto, from Latin arte (“by skill”) (ablative of ars (“art”)) + factum (“thing made”) (from facio (“to make, do”)).
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