English Dictionary

artifact

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɑːtɪfækt/

名詞

An object made or shaped by human hand or labor. / An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.

日本語の意味

人の手によって作られた物体や、人工的に形成・作られた物。 / 自然現象ではなく、ある主体や知性（必ずしも直接的な人間のものとは限らない）によって生成された物体。

The archaeologists carefully cataloged each artifact uncovered at the ancient site.

考古学者たちは古代の遺跡で発掘された各人工物を注意深く目録に記録した。

意味（1）

An object made or shaped by human hand or labor.

Given increasing investment in an IT (information technology) artifact (i.e., online service website), it is becoming important to retain existing customers.

意味（2）

An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.

意味（3）

Something viewed as a product of human agency or conception rather than an inherent element.

The very act of looking at a naked model was an artifact of male supremacy.

意味（4）

A finding or structure 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.

意味（5）

(archaeology) An object, such as a tool, ornament, or weapon of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.

The dig produced many Roman artifacts.

意味（6）

(biology) An appearance or structure in protoplasm due to death, the method of preparation of specimens, or the use of reagents, and not present during life.

意味（7）

(computing) A perceptible distortion that appears in an audio or video file or a digital image as a result of applying a lossy compression algorithm.

This JPEG image has been so highly compressed that it has unsightly compression artifacts, making it unsuitable for the cover of our magazine.

意味（8）

(museology) Any object in the collection of a museum. May be used sensu stricto only for human-made objects, or may include ones that are not human-made.

artifacts （ plural ）