ARTIFACT

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.

★ 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:

★ 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

★ 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).