artifact : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: artifact	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for artifact
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
artifact n a man-made object taken as a whole [syn: artifact, artefact] Antonym(s): natural object
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Artifact \Ar"ti*fact\, n. [L. ars, artis, art + facere, factum, to make.] 1. (Arch[91]ol.) A product of human workmanship; -- applied esp. to the simpler products of aboriginal art as distinguished from natural objects. 2. (Biol.) A structure or appearance in protoplasm due to death or the use of reagents and not present during life.