Artifact vs Package - What's the difference?
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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.
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.
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.
Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope.
Something which consists of various components, such as a piece of computer software.
(label) A piece of software which has been prepared in such a way that it can be installed with a package manager.
The act of packing something.
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Something resembling a package.
A package holiday.
A football formation.
(euphemistic, vulgar) The male genitalia.
A charge made for packing goods.
To pack or bundle something.
To travel on a package holiday.
In computing terms the difference between artifact and package
is that artifact is a perceptible distortion that appears in a digital image, audio or video file as a result of applying a lossy compression algorithm while package is a piece of software which has been prepared in such a way that it can be installed with a package manager.As nouns the difference between artifact and package
is that artifact is an object made or shaped by human hand while package is something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope.As a verb package is
to pack or bundle something.artifact
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Alternative forms
* artefactNoun
(en noun)- The dig produced many Roman artifacts .
- The spot on his lung turned out to be an artifact of the X-ray process.
- 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.package
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(wikipedia package)Noun
- Did you test the software package to ensure completeness?
- the "dime" defensive package
- For third and short, they're going to bring in their jumbo package.