The Collaborative International Dictionary
Artificial \Ar`ti*fi"cial\, a. [L. artificialis, fr. artificium: cf. F. artificiel. See Artifice.]
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Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers.
Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life.
--Shak. Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine. ``Artificial tears.''
--Shak.Artful; cunning; crafty. [Obs.]
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Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as, artificial grasses.
--Gibbon.Artificial arguments (Rhet.), arguments invented by the speaker, in distinction from laws, authorities, and the like, which are called inartificial arguments or proofs.
--Johnson.Artificial classification (Science), an arrangement based on superficial characters, and not expressing the true natural relations species; as, ``the artificial system'' in botany, which is the same as the Linn[ae]an system.
Artificial horizon. See under Horizon.
Artificial light, any light other than that which proceeds from the heavenly bodies.
Artificial lines, lines on a sector or scale, so contrived as to represent the logarithmic sines and tangents, which, by the help of the line of numbers, solve, with tolerable exactness, questions in trigonometry, navigation, etc.
Artificial numbers, logarithms.
Artificial person (Law). See under Person.
Artificial sines, tangents, etc., the same as logarithms of the natural sines, tangents, etc.
--Hutton.
Wikipedia
"Artificial Light" is the lead single by American Christian metal band Demon Hunter from their seventh studio album, Extremist.
Usage examples of "artificial light".
The girl glanced at the map Johann was holding and checked the placement of both the artificial light and the island.
Although the sun was now high in the sky, the rocket was bathed in brilliant artificial light, wreathed in vapor breathed by the mass of cryogenic fuels in its tanks.
But her mind refused to accept what her eyes were telling her: she seemed to be looking down on a turn-of-the-century building bathed in artificial light-one of those twenty-story milk cartons she had seen pictures of.
An experience as eerie as observing a full solar eclipse, because outdoor artificial light was simultaneously forbidden.
He had studied it in spacedock, surrounded by artificial light, yes, but never like this, in its “.
Without hesitation, naked, in the calm, artificial light, he climbed into the suit, wiped the base of the helmet because it, too, had oil on it, put it on, closed the fasteners, and on all fours crawled down the well, now horizontal like a tunnel, to the thigh hatch.
A nonoperant person exploring the cave with artificial light when the cave-wind was not blowing would likely have missed the crack entirely because of the way it was shadowed.
At the edge of the artificial light, struck more by the stars and moon, a razor-wire fence penned a flock of abandoned police vehicles, spinners and heavier cruisers with scorched flame-out marks along their engine exhausts, cockpits shattered or drilled with a line of spiderwebbed holes from high-caliber automatic weapons fire.
We also had stockpiled grass seed and soil microorganisms, so we could restart the fields if the enemy destroyed them, and had grown scions from every tree in the valley under artificial light far below ground.
The grapes pressed to yield the wine distilled to make this drink had doubtless been grown at Templar vineyards, maybe in some cavern on this wanderworld, or on another, most likely beneath a finely tuned spectrum of artificial light.