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Artifact vs Partage - What's the difference?

artifact | partage |

As nouns the difference between artifact and partage

is that artifact is an object made or shaped by human hand while partage is (obsolete) a part, portion or share.

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.

    partage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A part, portion or share.
  • Division, sharing; the act of portioning out or dividing up.
  • *, I.46:
  • *:looke into our Royall house, where so many partages [tr. ], so many surnames, and so many severall titles have so encumbred us, that the originall of the stocke is utterly lost.
  • (archaic, archaeology) The one-time standard practice of the divvying up of artifacts between archaeologists, their patrons and the host territory.
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