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 an online multiplayer game