Artifact
Appearance
Artifact (American English) or artefact (British English) may refer to:
Science and technology
[edit]- Artifact (error), misleading or confusing alteration in data or observation, commonly in experimental science, resulting from flaws in technique or equipment
- Compression artifact, a loss of clarity caused by the data compression of an image, audio, or video
- Digital artifact, any undesired alteration in data introduced during its digital processing
- Visual artifact, anomalies during visual representation of digital graphics and imagery
- In the scrum software project management framework, documentation used for managing the project
Archaeology
[edit]- Artifact (archaeology), an object formed by humans, particularly one of interest to archaeologists
- Cultural artifact, in the social sciences, anything created by humans which gives information about the culture of its creator and users
- The Artefact (journal), published annually by the Archaeological and Anthropological Society of Victoria
Computing
[edit]- Artifact (software development), one of many kinds of tangible by-products produced during the development of software
- Artifact (enterprise architecture), a separate component of enterprise architecture
- Virtual artifact, an object in a digital environment
- Artifact (UML), a term in the Unified Modeling Language
- Artifact (app), a news recommendation app for iOS and Android
Arts and media
[edit]Film and television
[edit]- Artifact (film), a 2012 documentary film directed by Jared Leto under the pseudonym of Bartholomew Cubbins
- Artifacts (film), a 2007 horror film
- The Artifact (Eureka), a fictional object appearing in the TV series Eureka
Games
[edit]- Artifact (video game), a 2018 digital collectible card game by Valve
- Artifact (Magic: The Gathering), a card type in the trading card game Magic: The Gathering
Music
[edit]- Artifacts (group), a hip-hop duo from New Jersey
- Artifact (album), a 2002 album by The Electric Prunes
- Artifacts (Beirut album), 2022
- Artifacts (Nicole Mitchell album), 2015
- Artifacts (Steve Roach album), 1994
- Artifact, a 2019 album by Swedish electronic musician Waveshaper
- "Artefact", a song by Phoenix from Alpha Zulu, 2022
- "Artifact", a lyric in "Hits Different" from Midnights by Taylor Swift, 2022
Other media
[edit]- Artifact (ballet), 1984 ballet by William Forsythe
- Artifact, a 1985 science fiction novel by Gregory Benford
Other uses
[edit]- Artifact Creek, a stream in British Columbia, Canada
- Artifact Ridge, a mountain ridge in British Columbia, Canada
- Artifacting, a technique used on some older computers to generate color in monochrome modes by exploiting artifacts of analog television systems
- Learning artifact (education), an object created by students during the course of instruction
- A relic, an object left behind by a prophet or other important religious figure
See also
[edit]- All pages with titles containing Artifact
- All pages with titles containing Artefact
- All pages with titles beginning with Artifact
- All pages with titles beginning with Artefact
- Object (disambiguation)
- Artiifact, a 2016 album by South African hip hop record producer Anatii
- Artifakt, a compilation album by Better Than Ezra
- Artifakts (bc), a 1998 album by Plastikman
- Different spellings and connotations for artefact or artifact
- Magic item, in fantasy, any object that has magical powers so powerful that it cannot be duplicated or destroyed by ordinary means