artifact
English
Noun
(en noun )
An object made or shaped by human hand.
(archaeology) An object, such as a tool, weapon or ornament, of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.
- The dig produced many Roman artifacts .
Something viewed as a product of human conception or agency rather than an inherent element.
* “The very act of looking at a naked model was an artifact of male supremacy” (Philip Weiss).
A structure or finding 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.
An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.
(computing) A perceptible distortion that appears in a digital image, audio or video file as a result of applying a lossy compression algorithm.
- This JPEG image has been so highly compressed that it has too many unsightly compression artifacts , making it unsuitable for the cover of our magazine.
References
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* “artefact” is the preferred spelling in Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary”, with ”artifact listed as a variant.
* “artifact” is preferred by the Oxford English Dictionary and most American dictionaries.
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art
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) (from (etyl) (m)).
Noun
(Art)
(Art)
(Art)
(uncountable) The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
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(countable) Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.
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(uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.
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(uncountable) Aesthetic value.
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(uncountable) Artwork.
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(countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
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(countable) A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Boundary problems
, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art . Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
(countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
* 1796 , , (The Monk) , Folio Society 1985, page 217:
- A physician was immediately sent for; but on the first moment of beholding the corpse, he declared that Elvira’s recovery was beyond the power of art .
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
Synonyms
* (Human effort) craft
Antonyms
* (Human effort) mundacity, nature, subsistence
Quotations
* 2005‘, “I tell her what Donald Hall says: that the problem with workshops is that they trivialize ”’art by minimizing the terror.” -July ”Harper’s , Lynn Freed
* 2009 , “Visual art is a subjective understanding or perception of the viewer as well as a deliberate/conscious arrangement or creation of elements like colours, forms, movements, sounds, objects or other elements that produce a graphic or plastic whole that expresses thoughts, ideas or visions of the artist.” – Extended Essay on Visual Art, Alexander Brouwer
Derived terms
* abstract art
* art class
* art collection
* art dealer
* Art Deco
* artefact, artifact
* art exhibition
* art film
* art for art’s sake
* art form
* artful
* art gallery
* art historian
* art history
* art house
* artifice
* artificial
* art imitates life
* artisan
* artist
* artiste
* artistic
* art journal
* artless
* art movie
* art music
* art nouveau
* art object
* art paper
* art rock
* art rooom
* art school
* arts degree
* arts and crafts
* art student
* artsy
* artsy-craftsy
* art therapy
* art union
* artwork
* artworker
* arty
* ASCII art
* arty-farty
* Bachelor of Arts
* black art, black arts
* body art
* cave art
* clip art
* concept art
* down to a fine art
* fine arts
* folk art
* graphic art
* high art
* installation art
* junk art
* kinetic art
* liberal arts
* life imitates art
* line art
* martial art
* Master of Arts
* minimal art
* modern art
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* objet d’art
* op art
* optical art
* outsider art
* performance art
* person of ordinary skill in the art
* pixel art
* plastic art
* pop art
* primitive art
* prior art
* process art
* sand art
* sequential art
* seventh art
* state-of-the-art
* street art
* term of art
* traditional art
* vernacular art
* visual art
* work of art
* (art)
Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) .
Verb
(head)
(be)
- How great thou art !
See also
* am
* are
* be
* being
* been
* beest
* was
* wast
* were
* wert
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