Artefact vs. Artifact: Decoding the Right Spelling

A human-made object of historical or cultural significance.

A tangible piece of cultural or historical importance created by humans.

A product of human art and workmanship, especially one with archaeological interest.

Any item made by humans, often an object of study.

An object produced or shaped by human craft, especially a tool, weapon, or ornament of archaeological or historical interest.

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

A phenomenon or feature not originally present or expected and caused by an interfering external agent, action, or process, as an unwanted feature in a microscopic specimen after fixation, in a digitally reproduced image, or in a digital audio recording.

An inaccurate observation, effect, or result, especially one resulting from the technology used in scientific investigation or from experimental error

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.

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

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.

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

(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.

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

(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.

A product of human workmanship; - applied esp. to the simpler products of aboriginal art as distinguished from natural objects.

Any product of human workmanship; - applied both to objects made for practical purposes as well as works of art. It is contrasted to natural object, i.e. anything produced by natural forces without the intervention of man.

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

An object, oservation, phenomenon, or result arising from hidden or unexpected causes extraneous to the subject of a study, and therefore spurious and having potential to lead one to an erroneous conclusion, or to invalidate the study. In experimental science, artifacts may arise due to inadvertant contamination of equipment, faulty experimental design or faulty analysis, or unexpected effects of agencies not known to affect the system under study.

A man-made object taken as a whole

An object remaining from a particular period, showing human workmanship.