artifact
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈɑːrtɪfækt/
- Specialized
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artefacto
- The four spikes on the quasar are artifacts caused by the telescope mirror supports.
- statistical artifacts
- movement artifacts
- respiratory artifacts
The answers that we give right now are an artifact of our interface.
- The answers that we give right now are an artifact of our interface.
- And in it, they argued that they are mostly an artifact not of mispricing, but of marginal demand.
- It's not designed to have very clean images that are reproducible, free of artifacts and defects that we talked about.
- What that means is that the blue is actually an artifact of our perceptual system, considered as a percept of blue.
- But that's some sense an artifact of how we use our interface.
- Remember, neurons are just artifacts of the of the interface.
- In other words, the arrow of entropy, the arrow of time, is an artifact of the projection.
- All those sorts of things create an artifact, right?
Examples
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The image was distorted due to compression artifacts that appeared during editing.
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You see that there's already a bit of artifacts in that image.
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That might be simply an artifact of the year you were born.
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And that might just be a strange artifact of translation.
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The answers that we give right now are an artifact of our interface.
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Such a small ranking difference could result from statistical artifacts rather than substantial differences.
Academic text (1996) -
In other words, the arrow of entropy, the arrow of time, is an artifact of the projection.
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These are stamped and actually you can see the edge artifacts of their stamping.
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All analog signals were viewed on an oscilloscope to detect and eliminate movement artifacts from the analysis.
Academic text (1997) -
Nowadays, new tools, techniques, and algorithms have been designed to detect or remove artifact waveforms from ECG signals.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
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6.7
A change in a sound or electrical signal that makes the sound wrong
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8.4
A fault in a lens or mirror that makes images look wrong
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9.0
A distortion in images or sound that makes edges jagged and recordings sound harsh when saved with low detail
A fault in a lens or mirror that makes images look unclear
Antonyms
Compounds
How Noticeable
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5.0
- Specialized
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7.2
- Specialized
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4.7
- Specialized
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3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Artifact is also used in tech for an unwanted thing 'made' by a machine or process, for example a strange line in a photo or noise in a recording. This keeps the old idea of art and fact, so a tech artifact is something 'made' during processing, even if it is a mistake.