artifact
/ˈɑːrtɪfækt/
noun
- An object made by a human being, especially one of historical or cultural interest.
- She donated a family artifact, a 19th-century quilt, to the local historical society.
- The museum displayed a ancient pottery artifact from Greece.
- Archaeologists carefully dug up a bronze artifact near the old settlement.
- Something observed in a scientific investigation or experiment that is not naturally present but occurs as a result of the experimental procedure or error.
- Researchers realized the extra peak in the data was an artifact of the measuring device.
- The strange pattern on the MRI scan turned out to be an artifact from the patient's movement.
- To avoid an artifact, the lab technician recalibrated the microscope.
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