Artifact vs Product - What's the difference?
artifact | product |
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.
A commodity offered for sale.
Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc.
Anything that is produced; a result.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
* (Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
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# The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.
# A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances.
# (label) A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction.
# (arithmetic) A quantity obtained by multiplication of two or more numbers.
# (label) Any operation or a result thereof which generalises multiplication of numbers, like the multiplicative operation in a ring, product of types or a categorical product.
# Any tangible or intangible good or service that is a result of a process and that is intended for delivery to a customer or end user.
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Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.
As nouns the difference between artifact and product
is that artifact is an object made or shaped by human hand while product is a commodity offered for sale.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.product
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Noun
- the product of those ill-mated marriages.
- These institutions are the products of enthusiasm.