Artifact, or artefact, may refer to:
Science and technology
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Artifact (error)
In natural science and signal processing, an artifact or artefact is any error
An error (from the Latin ''error'', meaning "wandering") is an action which is inaccurate or incorrect. In some usages, an error is synonymous with a mistake. Th ...
, misleading or confusing alteration in data or observation, commonly in experimental science, resulting from flaws in technique or equipment
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Compression artifact
A compression artifact (or artefact) is a noticeable distortion of media (including images, audio, and video) caused by the application of lossy compression. Lossy data compression involves discarding some of the media's data so that it beco ...
, a loss of clarity caused by the data compression of an image, audio, or video
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Digital artifact
Digital artifact in information science, is any undesired or unintended alteration in data introduced in a digital process by an involved technique and/or technology.
Digital artifact can be of any content types including text, audio, video, ...
, any undesired alteration in data introduced during its digital processing
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Visual artifact
Visual artifacts (also artefacts) are artifact (error), anomalies apparent during visual representation as in digital graphics and other forms of imagery, especially photography and microscopy.
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, anomalies during visual representation of digital graphics and imagery
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scrum
Scrum may refer to:
Sport
* Scrum (rugby), a method of restarting play in rugby union and rugby league
** Scrum (rugby union), scrum in rugby union
* Scrum, an offensive melee formation in Japanese game Bo-taoshi
Media and popular culture
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software project management framework, documentation used for managing the project
Archaeology
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Artifact (archaeology)
An artifact, or artefact (see American and British English spelling differences), is a general term for an item made or given shape by humans, such as a tool or a work of art, especially an object of archaeological interest. In archaeology, the ...
, an object formed by humans, particularly one of interest to archaeologists
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Cultural artifact
A cultural artifact, or cultural artefact (see American and British English spelling differences), is a term used in the social sciences, particularly anthropology, ethnology and sociology for anything created by humans which gives information ...
, in the social sciences, anything created by humans which gives information about the culture of its creator and users
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''The Artefact'' (journal), published annually by the Archaeological and Anthropological Society of Victoria
Computing
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Artifact (software development)
An artifact is one of many kinds of ''tangible'' by-products produced during the development of software. Some artifacts (e.g., use cases, class diagrams, and other Unified Modeling Language (UML) models, requirements and design documents) help de ...
, one of many kinds of tangible by-products produced during the development of software
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Artifact (enterprise architecture)
Enterprise architecture artifacts, or EA artifacts, are separate documents constituting enterprise architecture.Winter, R. and Fischer, R. (2006), ''Essential Layers, Artifacts, and Dependencies of Enterprise Architecture'', In: Vallecillo, A. ...
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Virtual artifact
A virtual artifact (VA) is an immaterial object that exists in the human mind or in a digital environment, for example the Internet, intranet, virtual reality, cyberspace, etc.
Background
The term "virtual artifact" has been used in a variety of ...
, an object in a digital environment
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Artifact (UML)
An artifact in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the specification of a physical piece of information that is used or produced by a software development process, or by deployment and operation of a system."OMG (2008). OMG Unified Modeling Lan ...
, a term in the Unified Modeling Language
Arts and media
Film and television
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''Artifact'' (film), a 2012 documentary film directed by Jared Leto under the pseudonym of Bartholomew Cubbins
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''Artifacts'' (film), a 2007 horror film
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The Artifact (''Eureka''), a fictional object appearing in the TV series ''Eureka''
Games
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''Artifact'' (video game), a 2018 digital collectible card game by Valve
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Artifact (''Magic: The Gathering''), a card type in the trading card game ''Magic: The Gathering''
Music
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''Artifacts'' (Steve Roach album), 1994
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''Artifacts'' (Nicole Mitchell album), 2015
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Artifacts (group)
The Artifacts was an East Coast hip hop group consisting of El Da Sensei, Tame One and DJ Kaos. They hail from Newark, New Jersey and made underground music that paid homage to the four elements of hip hop. The Artifacts' most popular sing ...
, a hip-hop duo from New Jersey
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''Artifact'' (album), a 2002 album by The Electric Prunes
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Artiifact
''Artiifact'' (stylized as ARTIIFACT) is the debut studio album by South African hip hop record producer and musician Anatii. The album was released on 9 September 2016 by his record label YAL Entertainment, after many delays and following single ...
'', a 2016 album by South African hip hop record producer Anatii
* Artifact, a 2019 album by Swedish electronic musician
Waveshaper
In electronic music, waveshaping is a type of distortion synthesis in which complex spectra are produced from simple tones by altering the shape of the waveforms.
Uses
Waveshapers are used mainly by electronic musicians to achieve an extra-a ...
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''Artifacts'' (Beirut album), 2022
Other media
* ''Artifact'', a 1985 science fiction novel by
Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford (born January 30, 1941) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is professor emeritus at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He is a contributing editor of ''Reason ...
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''Artifact'' (ballet), 1984 ballet by William Forsythe
Other uses
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Learning artifact (education) In educational psychology, a learning artifact (or educational artifact) is an object created by students during the course of instruction. To be considered an artifact, an object needs to be lasting, durable, public, and materially present. Under ...
, an object created by students during the course of instruction
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Artifacting
Composite artifact colors is a designation commonly used to address several graphic modes of some 1970s and 1980s home computers. With some machines, when connected to an NTSC TV or monitor over composite video outputs, the video signal en ...
, a technique used on some older computers to generate color in monochrome modes by exploiting artifacts of analog television systems
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relic
In religion, a relic is an object or article of religious significance from the past. It usually consists of the physical remains of a saint or the personal effects of the saint or venerated person preserved for purposes of veneration as a tangi ...
, an object left behind by a prophet or other important religious figure
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Object (disambiguation)
Object may refer to:
General meanings
* Object (philosophy), a thing, being, or concept
** Object (abstract), an object which does not exist at any particular time or place
** Physical object, an identifiable collection of matter
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Artifakt
''Artifakt'' is a compilation album by Better Than Ezra, sold only at the band's concerts and through the official Better Than Ezra merchandise website beginning in 2001. The previously rare and unreleased songs comprising the album span the ba ...
'', a compilation album by Better Than Ezra
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Artifakts (bc)
''Artifakts c' is the fifth studio album by Canadian electronic music producer Richie Hawtin, and his fourth studio album under the alias Plastikman. It was released on November 2, 1998 by Minus and Novamute Records. The album was devised as ...
'', a 1998 album by Plastikman
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Different spellings and connotations for ''artefact'' or ''artifact''
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Magic item
A magic item is any object that has magical powers inherent in it. These may act on their own or be the tools of the person or being whose hands they fall into. Magic items are commonly found in both folklore and modern fantasy. Their fictional ...
, in fantasy, any object that has magical powers so powerful that it cannot be duplicated or destroyed by ordinary means
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