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An artifact or artefact (see also spelling differences) is: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... American and British English spelling differences are one aspect of American and British English differences. ...

• A human-made object, such as a tool, weapon or ornament, especially those of archaeological or historical interest.
• A human-made object that is a prototype or standard of measurement.
• A structure or feature, visible only as a result of external action or experimental error. Also known as disturbance in biopotential signals.
• Artefact is a fulltext information retrieval system capable of searching through databases containing documents written in a natural language

Articles about various kinds of artifacts include: A modern hammer is directly descended from ancient hand tools A tool or device is a piece of equipment which typically provides a mechanical advantage in accomplishing a physical task, or provides an ability that is not naturally available to the user of a tool. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Look up Decoration in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... History is often used as a generic term for information about the past, such as in geologic history of the Earth. When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of human societies. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with prototyping. ... Standardization, in the context related to technologies and industries, is the process of establishing a technical standard among competing entities in a market, where this will bring benefits without hurting competition. ... Various meters Measurement is an observation that reduces an uncertainty expressed as a quantity. ... An error has different meanings in different domains. ... A database is an information set with a regular structure. ... The term natural language is used to distinguish languages spoken and signed (by hand signals and facial expressions) by humans for general-purpose communication from constructs such as writing, computer-programming languages or the languages used in the study of formal logic, especially mathematical logic. ...

• Artifact (archaeology), any object made or modified by a human culture, and later recovered by an archaeological endeavor
• Artifact (computer game), an online multiplayer video game
• Artifact (GBA game), a strategy game for the Game Boy Advance
• 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), product documentation like requirements, design, test plans of a software application
• Artifacts (album) is a tribal ambient music album by the American artist Steve Roach
• Artifakts (bc), a minimal techno album by Canadian artist Plastikman
• 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
• The Artifact is a weapon from Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil
• Virtual artifact, objects in the digital environment
• Artifacts (Band), Hip-Hop Duo from New Jersey
• Artefact (band) Black metal band from France
• Artifact (band) Gothic metal band from Norway
• Artifact, an object responsible for creating a Tangent Universe as described in the fictional book The Philosophy of Time Travel from the film Donnie Darko.
• The Artifact (Eureka), a fictional object appearing in the TV series Eureka (TV_series).

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