Artifact

Alternative forms

 * artefact

Etymology
Alteration of artefact:, from artefatto:, from  arte:, (ablative of ars:) + factum:, from facio:

Noun

 * 1) An object made or shaped by human hand.
 * 2)  An object, such as a tool, weapon or ornament, of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.
 * The dig produced many Roman artifacts.
 * 1) Something viewed as a product of human conception or agency rather than an inherent element.
 * 2) * "The very act of looking at a naked model was an artifact of male supremacy" (Philip Weiss).
 * 3) A structure or finding 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.
 * 1) An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.

Thesaurus
affair; ancient manuscript; antique; antiquity; archaism; article; brainchild; cave painting; child; coinage; composition; concoction; creation; creature; crowning achievement; dingus; distillation; dofunny; dohickey; dojigger; dojiggy; domajig; domajigger; doodad; dowhacky; effect; end product; eolith; eppes; essence; etwas; extract; flumadiddle; fossil; fruit; gadget; gigamaree; gimmick; gizmo; handiwork; hickey; hootenanny; hootmalalie; invention; issue; jigger; manufacture; masterpiece; masterwork; material thing; mezzolith; microlith; mintage; neolith; new mintage; object; offspring; opera; opus; opuscule; origination; outcome; outgrowth; paleolith; petrification; petrified forest; petrified wood; petroglyph; plateaulith; product; production; quelque chose; relic; reliquiae; remains; result; ruin; ruins; something; survival; thing; thingum; thingumabob; thingumadad; thingumadoodle; thingumajig; thingumajigger; thingumaree; thingummy; vestige; whatchy; widget; work