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Manufactured vs Artificial - What's the difference?

manufactured | artificial |

As adjectives the difference between manufactured and artificial

is that manufactured is manmade; produced by humans rather than nature while artificial is man-made; of artifice.

As a verb manufactured

is past tense of manufacture.

manufactured

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • manmade; produced by humans rather than nature
  • (by extension) not genuine
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (manufacture)
  • artificial

    English

    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.
  • Derived terms

    * artificial consciousness * artificial intelligence * artificiality * artificially * artificialness * artificial selection * artificial turf

    See also

    * fake ----