Artifact

An artifact (also artefact) is a term coined by Sir Julian Huxley meaning any object or process resulting from human activity. The specific meanings of the word are several:

an artifact in archaeology
an artifact of observation
an artifact of fantasy
an artifact in sociology (cultural artifact)
a compression artifact, in computer science, resulting from lossy data compression
Artifact is a name of an online multiplayer game

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