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artifact Definition

ar·ti·fact (ärt′ə fakt′)

noun

  1. any object made by human work; esp., a simple or primitive tool, weapon, vessel, etc.
  2. Histology any nonnatural feature or structure accidentally introduced into something being observed or studied

Etymology: L arte, by skill (abl. of ars, art) + factum, thing made (see fact)

artifact Telecom Definition
Unintended and unwanted distortions or other aberrations in reproduced audio or video due to transmission errors or signal processing operations. Artifacts often result from the use of lossy compression algorithms at high compression ratios. Artifacts in video images can manifest as jagged blockings or a tiling effect known as aliasing, banding of colors, white spots, and even dropped frames. See also aliasing, compression, distortion, lossy compression, and signal.
artifact Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • power: This is an ancient artifact of magical power that grants certain abilities to its wielder.

Converse of object

  • minimize: All data is sent uncompressed, to minimize additional artifacts from recompression.
  • recover: We have the largest exhibition of artifacts recovered by divers, on public display in the UK.
  • steal: Someone on the dig team wants to steal valuable artifacts and smuggle them to the United States to sell on the black market.
  • preserve: I have used it for archiving data much like one would preserve tangible artifacts.
  • collect: By collecting artifacts from the past, the museum gives shape to history.
  • discover: The source of the conflict is a set of ancient artifacts discovered on seven of the planets in the sector.

Adjective modifier

  • stolen: They want Ramon to keep an eye on the black market in stolen artifacts.
  • alien: Several things: 1. I'm working on chapter 21 of my novel: " Alien Artifact.
  • Egyptian: The British Museum is apparently lending some of its Egyptian artifacts for display in Cairo for 6 months.
  • prehistoric: Cleadon The earliest recorded evidence of human activity at Cleadon is provided by prehistoric flint artifacts ( HER 883 ).
  • ancient: Could it be due to an ancient artifact or a magic spell going awry?
  • digital: There's a pretty sizeable film artifact at around the 7m 50s mark together with some massive digital artifacts.

Preposition: on

  • display: The image clarity is generally quite sharp and there are pleasantly few instances of motion artifacts on display.

Noun used with modifier

  • aliasing: Beside the ugly aliasing artifacts the image looks much better.
  • compression: Most DVDs exhibit few visible MPEG compression artifacts on a properly configured system.
  • noise: There are also low levels of digital noise reduction artifacts present.
  • reduction: There are also low levels of digital noise reduction artifacts present.
  • motion: Using complimentary refresh rates film to video motion artifacts can also be removed.
  • museum: They have an excellent museum artifacts from the city.