Artifact meaning

Noun: artifact

Pronunciation: (aa-ti,fakt)

Artifact meaning:

1. A man-made object taken as a whole.
2. Something that appears in a scientific result that is not a true feature of thing being studied, but instead a result of the experimental or analysis method or observational error.

Quotations: Andrew Stern – We’re definitely not throwing the artifacts away, but we’re not going to leave them in the ground. We’re going to let the buildings and blast furnaces create that industrial atmosphere. We don’t feel like we need to use gears and beams to hit people over the head with it.

Roy Henry Vickers – We danced the Chief’s Dance and blessed our artifacts. It was so powerful for me. We danced in our modern regalia in front of these magnificent ancient cedar capes and headdresses that would have done the same dance 200 years ago. I’ve done that dance hundreds of times, but this time I was overcome by the power of everything and broke down after we finished.

Max Mutchler – That was somewhat surprising because ground-based observers had been trying for more than a decade to find new satellites around Pluto. But I felt almost certain even when I first saw them that they were real objects, not any sort of artifact  and that they were exhibiting orbital motion around Pluto.

Charles Haas – One of the things they do is bombard organic materials, such as leather) with gamma rays radiation to kill whatever bacteria might be lurking inside of it. In some cases the artifacts are freeze-dried to achieve the same thing. In other cases they have to be placed in a biocide solution that kills the bacteria.

Bill Lane – It’s fabulous. It identifies some of the most outstanding material in this amazing collection of millions of documents and artifacts.

Chris Bruce – We know that those artifacts that we have in the collection are artifacts that weren’t meant to be in a museum, weren’t meant to be behind a case. So we feel responsibility to bring them to life through the program that we’ve developed.

Sample sentences:

1. It’s not a museum. It’s not a place of artifacts. It’s a place of ideas.
2. The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will never accept artifacts from any company known to be involved with gambling.
3. For the last 100 years, curators sat down to drink tea, but they did not do their jobs. How many artifacts are in the basement? It was awful.
4. All this is an artifact of the growth that’s occurring here.
5. We are dealing with a looted object. The artifact was poorly handled for years because the people holding it were more concerned with making money than protecting it.
6. Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
7. When you walk down the fairways at Augusta, it’s unlike any other tournament for us as players. It’s a different feeling. You have people taking pictures of you and you feel like you’re almost an artifact in a museum.
8. Since I had to go in there for the special exception I put down, too, plans for the future. I’d like to have a fairly large building for aviation artifacts.
9. In light of the apparent theft of certain artifacts, all of our displays are now under lock and key.
10. There is no evidence to support that, and the coalition forces have been asked that specific question, and all deny taking any activities against some of the artifacts inside the mosque.