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Meaning
Noun
●
An
object
made or
shaped
by human
hand
or labor.
●
An
object
made or
shaped
by some
agent
or
intelligence
, not
necessarily
of
direct
human origin.
●
Something
viewed
as a product of human
agency
or
conception
rather than
an
inherent
element.
●
A
finding
or structure in an
experiment
or
investigation
that is not a
true
feature
of the
object
under
observation
, but is a result of
external
action
, the test
arrangement
, or an
experimental
error.
●
In Archaeology:
An
object
, such as a
tool
,
ornament
, or
weapon
of
archaeological
or
historical
interest, especially such an
object
found at an
archaeological
excavation.
●
In Biology:
An
appearance
or structure in
protoplasm
due
to death
, the method of
preparation
of
specimens
, or the use of
reagents
, and not present during life.
●
In Computing:
A
perceptible
distortion
that
appears
in an
audio
or
video
file
or a
digital image
as a result of
applying
a
lossy
compression
or other
inexact
processing
algorithm.
●
Any
object
in the
collection
of a
museum
. May be used
sensu stricto
only for
human-made
objects
, or may include
ones
that are not
human-made
.
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