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artefact
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
artefact
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cultural
▪ Social semiotics, taking account of questions of interpretation and context, inflects the emphasis specifically towards cultural artefacts and social behaviour.
other
▪ However, living systems do resemble machines and other human artefacts.
▪ This means the type of information they can give is often different from that of other artefacts.
▪ She had also brought to school an old milk-can and other artefacts.
▪ Most produced only animal bone, whereas the five sunken buildings contained bone, pottery and other small artefacts.
▪ Without datable coins, other artefacts like pottery can not be dated.
▪ Life went on, and pottery and other artefacts continued to be made for several decades at least.
■ VERB
use
▪ Petrological examination can be used on ceramic artefacts and on stone objects.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An artefact from the past can be used to engage interest and awaken curiosity.
▪ Many artefacts decorated in this way have been found in royal tombs on the mainland.
▪ The problem of interpretation is closely linked to the place of the artefact in intersubjective order.
▪ This fixed point may be almost anything which can be independently dated: another coin, another artefact, a historical event.
▪ To what extent are some of the so-called characteristics of ageing in fact social artefacts?
▪ Wright's character is in effect a projected reader registering bewilderment before an artefact which has abandoned conventional ordering.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
artefact

artefact \artefact\ n. same as artifact.

Syn: artifact.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
artefact

older and alternative spelling of artifact (n.). Related: Artefactual; artefactually.

Wiktionary
artefact

n. (alternative spelling of artifact from=UK from2=AU English)

WordNet
artefact

n. a man-made object taken as a whole [syn: artifact] [ant: natural object]

Wikipedia
Artefact (company)

Artefact is a technology product design company based in Seattle, Washington. Founded by designers, Gavin Kelly and Rob Girling in 2006, Artefact designs and builds technology products and services.

Usage examples of "artefact".

DNA in that Artefact than there is in the smart chimps in the transportation system.

When I am finished, and you see your Artefact, you will recognize nothing of what lies behind it.

You could have been an Artefact of a type I had never before encountered, something new out of the Needler labs.

An Artefact, or rather, a set of ten identical ones, for use in Pursuit Team training.

Simulated Artefact lacks circadian rhythms and is indifferent to night or day.

By now she would be landing on Travancore, to face not a Simmie Artefact but the real Morgan Construct.

The Simulacrum was no more than an Artefact, out even an Artefact had its own joys and sorrows.

The Simulacrum was no more than an Artefact, and even an Artefact had its own joys and sorrows.

I cannot help but feel that had I not brought this artefact here, you might have been spared all this.

This remarkable artefact consisted of an elemental chunk of bedrock, grey and crystalline, carved into a complex geometrical form of curves and angles, incised niches and external buttresses, surmounted at the centre by a stubby vertical prong.

No, he was no more about to risk handling an artefact holding a similarly imprisoned mind than I was.

I would like to know just how this business of linking to an artefact works.

Guinalle heard you had seen an Elietimm priest raise the image of its owner from an artefact for the Aldabreshin, she worried at the notion like a dog with a bone until she had perfected the incantations.

That is, LTP might be an artefact, a result of the special deprived rearing conditions in which laboratory animals are raised.

An artefact, just like the machines in the temple, and back at Landis Kans palace.