Artifact

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Artifact (American English) or artefact (British English) may refer to:

Science and technology

  • Artifact (error), misleading or confusing alteration in data or observation, commonly in experimental science, resulting from flaws in technique or equipment
    • Compression artifact, a loss of clarity caused by the data compression of an image, audio, or video
    • Digital artifact, any undesired alteration in data introduced during its digital processing
    • Sonic artifact, in sound and music production, sonic material that is accidental or unwanted, resulting from the editing of another sound.
    • Visual artifact, anomalies during visual representation of digital graphics and imagery
  • In the scrum software project management framework, documentation used for managing the project

Archaeology

Computing

Cultural studies

  • Cultural artifact, in the social sciences, anything created by humans which gives information about the culture of its creator and users

Arts and media

Film and television

Games

Music

Other media

Other uses

  • Artifact Creek, a stream in British Columbia, Canada
  • Artifact Ridge, a mountain ridge in British Columbia, Canada
  • Artifacting, a technique used on some older computers to generate color in monochrome modes by exploiting artifacts of analog television systems
  • Learning artifact (education), an object created by students during the course of instruction
  • A relic, an object left behind by a prophet or other important religious figure

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