artifact

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ar·ti·fact /ˈɑːtəfækt $ ˈɑːr-/ noun [countable] especially American English  x-refanother spelling of artefact artefact的另一种拼法► see thesaurus at thing

Examples from the Corpus

artifact• To date a coin or an artifact is not the same thing as to date the context in which it is found.• Male speaker It's an artifact and a working sundial.• Software, is though, a cultural artifact of the modern world.• Egyptian artifacts• Caterina takes a dagger from the gallery artifact collection and goes to meet him.• The large silk-screen paintings of the 1960s come very close to the hand-made artifact being composed almost entirely of ready-made images.• A single obsidian artifact can not be expected to give a reliable date.• But no dream or artifact looms as large as his words.• Now open to the public, the Bunker is a symbolic artifact on the bridge from the past to the present.

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artifact
ar‧ti‧fact /ˈɑːtəfækt, ˈɑːtɪfækt $ ˈɑːr-/ noun [countable] especially American English
another spelling of artefact
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ thing used when you do not need to say the name, or when you do not know the name: What’s that thing on the kitchen table? | Have you got all your things?
   ▪ something a thing – used when you are not sure what the thing is: There’s something on your shirt.
   ▪ object especially written a solid thing: a sharp metal object
   ▪ item formal a particular kind of thing, or one of a group of things: household items | a luxury item | an item of equipment | The items included pieces of old pottery. | You are not allowed to take sharp items onto the plane.
   ▪ article formal a particular kind of thing, or one of a group of things. Article is very formal, and is used especially in the phrase an article of clothing: They found several articles of clothing in the bushes. | suspicious articles | Each article has a card with it giving more information.
   ▪ artifact (also artefact) formal an object that someone has made, especially one that is very old and has historical value: The museum has a collection of early Roman artifacts.
   ▪ thingy (also thingamajig/thingamabob) spoken informal a thing – used especially when you cannot remember the name of the thing, but often the other person knows what you are talking about: Can you pass me the thingy?

ar·ti·factBrE /ˈɑːtɪfækt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈɑːrtɪfækt/ 🔊 (especially NAmE) = artefact