artifact
神器,文物,神物,神话
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- : any object made by human beings, especially with a view to subsequent use.
- : a handmade object, as a tool, or the remains of one, as a shard of pottery, characteristic of an earlier time or cultural stage, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.
- : any mass-produced, usually inexpensive object reflecting contemporary society or popular culture: artifacts of the pop rock generation.
- : a substance or structure not naturally present in the matter being observed but formed by artificial means, as during preparation of a microscope slide.
- : a spurious observation or result arising from preparatory or investigative procedures.
- : any feature that is not naturally present but is a product of an extrinsic agent, method, or the like: statistical artifacts that make the inflation rate seem greater than it is.
- : Digital Technology. a visible or audible anomaly introduced in the processing or transmission of digital data: Your computer might need a new graphics card if you see green pixels where you should not, or other graphics artifacts.Ghosting artifacts in an MRI are usually the result of patient movement during a scan.
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With offices already reconfiguring open plans, and the possibility that common spaces like snack bars and conference rooms will be off-limits, the literal watercooler conversation could be an artifact of a bygone era.
She worked from attic rooms in the American Museum of Natural History in New York, her main employer, in a nest of field notebooks and tagged artifacts, handwritten letters and typed mimeographs, thousands upon thousands of pages and objects.
Many philosophers and mathematicians at the time thought that arithmetic was merely an artifact of human psychology.
Lombard, however, reserves judgment on the Sri Lankan bone points until high-resolution CT scans are used to probe for damage from high-speed impacts inside the artifacts.
The researchers turned up cultural artifacts along with the fossils.
Today, a lack of provenance often means one of two things: an artifact is forged or an artifact was illegally acquired.
Today, researchers are flummoxed as to the whereabouts of this gargantuan cultural artifact.
Given how infrequently new copies of the map appeared on the market, collectors would bid handsomely for the artifact.
It was such a resounding failure, but I was coming at that conversation as a fan of the movie as a pop culture artifact.
The only identifiable artifact is a perfectly circular slab of concrete.
This artifact reflects silver and pewter salt forms of about 1725.