artifact

1. (US)An object made or shaped by human hand or labor.

   Artefakt

   артефа́ктartefákt

   a man-made object taken as a whole

2. (US)An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.

3. (US)Something viewed as a product of human agency or conception rather than an inherent element.

4. (US)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.

5. 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)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.

6. (US)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.

   This JPEG image has been so highly compressed that it has unsightly artifacts, making it unsuitable for the cover of our magazine.

   The opacity in his chest radiograph turned out to be an artifact due to the film.

7. (US)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.

8. An object, such as a tool, ornament, or weapon of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.

   (US)A powerful weapon, armor or another object, often with magical properties.

9. (US)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.

1. Looters stole ancient artifacts from the tomb.

   Мародери вкрали стародавні артефакти з могили.

   ruМародеры украли древние артефакты из гробницы.

   dePlünderer stahlen alte Artefakte aus dem Grab.

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2. Archeologists found many ceramic artifacts at that archeological site.

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3. I heard they found an alien artifact on the moon.

   deIch habe gehört, man hätte ein außerirdisches Artefakt auf dem Mond gefunden.

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4. Bennu is a primordial artifact preserved in the vacuum of space.

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5. The artifacts included statues and pieces made of bronze and terracotta.

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