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Artifact vs Featherwork - What's the difference?

artifact | featherwork |

As nouns the difference between artifact and featherwork

is that artifact is an object made or shaped by human hand while featherwork is (uncountable) the working of feathers into a cultural artifact.

artifact

English

Alternative forms

* artefact

Noun

(en noun)
  • An object made or shaped by human hand.
  • (archaeology) An object, such as a tool, weapon or ornament, of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.
    • The dig produced many Roman artifacts .
  • Something viewed as a product of human conception or agency rather than an inherent element.
  • * "The very act of looking at a naked model was an artifact of male supremacy" (Philip Weiss).
  • A structure or finding in an experiment or investigation that is not a true feature of the object under observation, but is a result of external action, the test arrangement, or an experimental error.
    • The spot on his lung turned out to be an artifact of the X-ray process.
  • An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.
  • (computing) A perceptible distortion that appears in a digital image, audio or video file as a result of applying a lossy compression algorithm.
    • This JPEG image has been so highly compressed that it has too many unsightly compression artifacts , making it unsuitable for the cover of our magazine.

    References

    * * "artefact" is the preferred spelling in Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary'', with ''artifact listed as a variant. * "artifact" is preferred by the Oxford English Dictionary and most American dictionaries.

    featherwork

    English

    (wikipedia featherwork)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The working of feathers into a cultural artifact.
  • (countable) A cultural artifact made with feathers.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 29, author=Holland Cotter, title=Portugal, Conquering and Also Conquered, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=With filigreed Kongo ivories, gilded Qing astrolabes, Brazilian featherwork , Sri Lankan rock-crystal, mother-of-pearl Mughal inlay and life-size Portuguese carvings of angels and saints, it has something even for someone who has seen everything before. }}