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artefakti — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • artifact noun An object made or shaped by a person, especially a tool, ornament or vessel from the past that is studied for what it reveals about a culture.

Senses

artefakti is used for these senses in English:

  • artifact An object made or shaped by human hand or labor.
  • artifact Something viewed as a product of human agency or conception rather than an inherent element.
  • artifact 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.
  • artifact (archaeology) An object, such as a tool, ornament, or weapon of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.
  • artifact (software engineering) Ellipsis of build artifact.

artifact — full definition

  1. noun An object made or shaped by a person, especially a tool, ornament or vessel from the past that is studied for what it reveals about a culture.
  2. noun A distortion or false feature that appears in an image, recording or set of results because of the equipment or method used rather than because it exists in the thing being measured.
  3. noun A file or package produced as an output of a software build or process and stored for later use.

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