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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Artifact \Ar"ti*fact\, n. [L. ars, artis, art + facere factum,
to make.]
1. (Arch[ae]ol.) A product of human workmanship; -- applied
esp. to the simpler products of aboriginal art as
distinguished from natural objects.
2. (Biol.) A structure or appearance in protoplasm due to
death or the use of reagents and not present during life.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
artifact
n : a man-made object [syn: {artefact}] [ant: {natural object}]
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