Adjective

(en adjective)

Man-made; of artifice.

* {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838

, page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.}}

False, misleading.

Unnatural.

Adjective

(-)

Fake (as documents).

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01

, author=Brian Hayes , title=Father of Fractals , volume=101, issue=1, page=62 , magazine= citation , passage=Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.}}

Forged identification documents were used to enter the building.

Fabricated by forging or at a forge, by working hot metal

The blacksmith made an expertly forged horseshoe by beating the red hot metal with his hammer.