Artifact

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An artifact or artefact (see also spelling differences) is:

• 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.

Articles about various kinds of artifacts include:

• 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 (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
• Artifacts (histology), a change in the appearance of tissue that obstructs histological examination
• 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 man-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

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