a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge george r r martin a game of thrones like never forget what you are for surely the world will not
First published Tue Jan 5, 1999; substantive revision Tue Oct 11, 2011. An artifact may be defined as an object that has been intentionally made or produced for a certain purpose. Often the word âartifactâ is used in a more restricted sense to refer to simple, hand-made objects which represent a particular culture.
artifact. 1. any artificial product; a structure or appearance that is not natural, but is due to manipulation. 2. distortion or fuzziness of an image caused by manipulation, such as during compression of a digital file. film artifact artificial images on x-ray films due to storage, handling, or processing. phantom artifact artificial images seen with conventional tomography. standardization artifact an electrical stimulus of 1 mV deliberately introduced into the electrocardiogram so that pulse amplitudes on the tracing can be adjusted to 10 mm.