Artifact
An artifact (also artefact) refers to any object or process resulting from human activity which represents things from the past. The specific meanings of the word are several:
- An artifact in archaeology
- An artifact of observation
- An artifact of fantasy
- A cultural artifact (from sociology)
- An artifact in software engineering
- A compression artifact in computer science, resulting from lossy data compression
- Artifact is a name of an online multiplayer game