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Artifact
An artifact (also artefact) is a term coined by Sir Julian Huxley meaning any object or process resulting from human activity. The specific meanings of the word are several:
- an artifact in archaeology
- an artifact of observation
- an artifact of fantasy
- an artifact in sociology (cultural artifact)
- a compression artifact, in computer science, resulting from lossy data compression
- Artifact is a name of an an online multiplayer game
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