Artifact vs Biofact - What's the difference?
artifact | biofact |
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.
(archaeology) a biological artefact, not altered by human hands; e.g. a seed, or an uncarved wooden roof beam.
(philosophy, sociology, the arts) A hybrid of an artefact and a living entity, or between concepts of nature and technology.
In archaeology|lang=en terms the difference between artifact and biofact
is that artifact is (archaeology) an object, such as a tool, weapon or ornament, of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation while biofact is (archaeology) a biological artefact, not altered by human hands; eg a seed, or an uncarved wooden roof beam.As nouns the difference between artifact and biofact
is that artifact is an object made or shaped by human hand while biofact is (archaeology) a biological artefact, not altered by human hands; eg a seed, or an uncarved wooden roof beam.artifact
English
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.