artifact

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.

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

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.

Overall the signage at NIE has the appearance being a top-down artefact driven by institutional policy with English set as the default language.

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.

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.

Holy shit! It is fascinating when a country’s culture seeps even into their math lessons, although it’s not really surprising. As a British child, our math questions were “if Johnny has two artifacts and Dinesh has two artifacts, then how many artifacts is Johnny about to have?” The answer, of course, “all the artifacts, Dinesh’s family can come visit them in a British museum whenever they’re in town.”