artifact

C2 CET-6 大学 FREQ #13420

n. 人工制品 [医] 人为现象, 人工产物

发音

UK /ˈɑːtɪfækt/
其它
US /ˈɑɹtɪfækt/
US /-ɾɪ-/
US /-ɾə-/

词形变化

artifacts 复数 artifacts

别名

artefact

教材释义与例句

名词

人工制品；手工艺品

释义与例句

n. C2
  1. 1.

    An object made or shaped by human hand or labor.

    人工制品

    美国
  2. 2.

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

    美国
  3. 3.

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

    美国
  4. 4.

    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.

    美国

    The spot on his lung turned out to be an artifact of the X-ray process.

  5. 5.

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

    手工艺品

    美国

    The dig produced many Roman artifacts.

  6. 6.

    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.

    美国 生物
  7. 7.

    A perceptible distortion that appears in an audio or video file or an image as a result of applying a lossy compression or other inexact processing algorithm or of physical interference in an acquisition process.

    美国 计算机 工程 数学 医学

    This JPEG image has been so highly compressed that it has unsightly artifacts, making it unsuitable for the cover of our magazine.

    The opacity in his chest radiograph turned out to be an artifact due to the film.

  8. 8.

    Ellipsis of build artifact.

    美国 计算机 工程 数学
  9. 9.

    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.

    美国

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

artefact

上位词 2

whole unit

下位词 10

good way thing means line bed track extra opening weight

相关短语

build artifact

词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- Proto-Indo-European *h₂értis Proto-Italic *artis Latin ars Latin arte Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁k-yé-ti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin faciō Latin factum Vulgar Latin *artefactum Italian artefattoder. English artifact Alteration of artefact, from Italian artefatto, from Latin arte (“by skill”) (ablative of ars (“art”)) + factum (“thing made”) (from facio (“to make, do”)).

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