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artefactual

artefactual \artefactual\ adj.

  1. of or pertaining to an artefact.

    Syn: artifactual

  2. made by human actions. natural

    Syn: artifactual [PJC] ||

Wiktionary
artefactual

a. (context archaeology English) Of or pertaining to artifacts

WordNet
artefactual

adj. of or relating to artifacts [syn: artifactual]

Usage examples of "artefactual".

The fact that philosophers, modelers and neurobiologists are actually listening to one another, and that computer people have at last begun to show some respect for biological as well as artefactual brains, clearly makes their analyses an advance over the earlier ones, in which Al enthusiasts tended to run away with preconceived notions of what nerve cells did, and soon cut off all meaningful contact with the biological phenomena which the neurobiologists were studying.

LTP might not be a purely artefactual phenomenon, which occurs only in animals which have been reared in the highly restricted environment of a research laboratory?

True, in what I actually do in the laboratory, I am trapped in an artefactual world mediated by machinery.

Wall, P D, and Safran, J Artefactual intelligence, in The Limits to Science, ed.

Instead, he could be said to be simply participating with them as an equal in an artefactual arena.

There were also rumours and fairytales: of alien digs beneath the crust, evidence that the chasm had in some sense been artefactual, if not necessarily deliberate.