artefact

See also: artéfact

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

artefact (plural artefacts)

1. (Australian spelling, British spelling) Alternative spelling of artifact
   • 1960, Alan Houghton Brodrick, “The Pithecanthropoids”, in Man and His Ancestry‎^[1], London: The Scientific Book Club, →OCLC, page 134:

     Palaeolithic implements have been recovered from 1953 in the Ordos and in Shansi. The most important site is Tingtsun in Hsiangfen county of the latter province. Here were found an abundant fossil fauna, three hominid teeth and over two thousand artefacts of a type more advanced than those of Pithecanthropus pekinensis.

Derived terms

• artefactual
• macroartefact
• microartefact

 

Translations

artefact — see artifact

References

• “artefact”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• farctate

Dutch

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑr.tə.fɑkt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ar‧te‧fact

Noun

artefact n (plural artefacten, diminutive artefactje n)

1. artifact

Descendants

• → Indonesian: artefak

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

artefact m (plural artefacts)

1. Alternative form of artéfact

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French artéfact.

Noun

artefact n (uncountable)

1. artifact

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	artefact	artefactul
genitive-dative	artefact	artefactului
vocative	artefactule