名詞 artifact:

1. a man-made object taken as a whole
   同義詞：artefact

artifact 也作 ar.te.fact

n.（名詞）
An object produced or shaped by human craft, especially a tool, a weapon, or an ornament of archaeological or historical interest.
人工制品：人工生產(chǎn)或仿制的物品，尤指工具，武器，或帶有考古或歷史趣味的裝飾品
A typical product or result:
典型產(chǎn)物：典型后果或結(jié)果：
例句：
.The very act of looking at a naked model was an artifact of male supremacy.(Philip Weiss)
.觀看裸體模特的行為本身是男權(quán)至上的典型產(chǎn)物.(菲利普·韋斯)

Biology A structure or substance not normally present but produced by an external agent or action, such as a structure seen in a microscopic specimen after fixation that is not present in the living tissue.
【生物學(xué)】 矯作物：非正常出現(xiàn)而是由外界因素或作用所產(chǎn)生的一種結(jié)構(gòu)或物質(zhì)，如經(jīng)固定后，在顯微鏡下才能看到的標(biāo)本中的一種活生命組織中不會(huì)出現(xiàn)的結(jié)構(gòu)

來源：
Latin arte [ablative of] ars [art] * see art
拉丁語 arte [] ars的奪格 [藝術(shù)] *參見 art
factum [something made] [from neuter past participle of] facere [to make] * see dhô-
factum [一些產(chǎn)物] [] 源自facere的中性過去分詞 [生產(chǎn)] *參見 dhô-

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