An artifact (also artefact) is:

• A man-made object, such as a tool, weapon or ornament, especially those of archaeological or historical interest.
• A structure or feature, visible only as a result of external action or experimental error. Also known as disturbance in biopotential signals.

Articles about various kinds of artifacts include:

• Artifact (archaeology), any object made or modified by a human culture, and later recovered by an archaeological endeavor
• Artifact (fantasy), in the fantasy genre, is usually a magical object with such great power that it cannot be duplicated or destroyed by ordinary means.
• Cultural artifact, a man-made object which gives information about the culture of its creator and users

• Artifact (observational), any perceived distortion or other data error caused by the instrument of observation
• Compression artifact, data compression artifact in computer science, resulting from lossy data compression
• Sonic artifact, in sound and music production, sonic material that is usually accidental or unwanted, resulting from the editing of another sound
• Artifact (medical imaging), misrepresentations of tissue structures seen in medical images.
• Digital artifact, a visible defect in a digital photo or video picture.
• Social artifact, a product of individuals or groups (social beings) or of their social behavior.
• Iatrogenic artifact, a disease made up by doctors.
• Software artifact, product documentation like requirements, design, test plans of a software application
• The Artifact is a weapon from Resurrection of Evil.

• Artifacts (album) is a tribal ambient music album by the American artist Steve Roach
• Artifakts (bc), a minimal techno album by Canadian artist Plastikman
• Artifact (computer game), an online multiplayer video game

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