artifact – English noun declension

English noun forms of artifact

Noun: artifact
Singularartifact
Pluralartifacts

Sample Sentences

  • Given increasing investment in an IT (information technology) artifact (i.e., online service website), it is becoming important to retain existing customers. [2010 May 26, Young Sik Kang, Heeseok Lee, “Understanding the role of an IT artifact in online service continuance: An extended perspective of user satisfaction.(Report)”, in Computers in Human Behavior, →DOI:]
  • The very act of looking at a naked model was an artifact of male supremacy. [2004, Philip Weiss, American Taboo: A Murder In The Peace Corps:]
  • Overall the signage at NIE has the appearance being a top-down artefact driven by institutional policy with English set as the default language. [2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 6:]
  • The spot on his lung turned out to be an artifact of the X-ray process.
  • The dig produced many Roman artifacts.
  • Holy shit! It is fascinating when a country’s culture seeps even into their math lessons, although it’s not really surprising. As a British child, our math questions were “if Johnny has two artifacts and Dinesh has two artifacts, then how many artifacts is Johnny about to have?” The answer, of course, “all the artifacts, Dinesh’s family can come visit them in a British museum whenever they’re in town.” [2017, Tim Carvell [et al.], “North Korea”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 21, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:]
  • This JPEG image has been so highly compressed that it has unsightly artifacts, making it unsuitable for the cover of our magazine.
  • The opacity in his chest radiograph turned out to be an artifact due to the film.
  • These hallucinations are compression artifacts, but—like the incorrect labels generated by the Xerox photocopier—they are plausible enough that identifying them requires comparing them against the originals, which in this case means either the Web or our own knowledge of the world. [2023 February 9, Ted Chiang, “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web”, in The New Yorker:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₂értis
4. Proto-Italic *artis
5. Latin ars
6. Latin arte
7. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
8. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
9. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
10. Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
11. Proto-Italic *θakjō
12. Proto-Italic *fakjō
13. Latin faciō
14. Latin factum
15. Vulgar Latin *artefactum
16. Italian artefattoder.
17. English artifact
18. Alteration of artefact, from Italian artefatto, from Latin arte (“by skill”) (ablative of ars (“art”)) + factum (“thing made”) (from facio (“to make, do”)). See: Italian Nouns 'artefatto', Latin Nouns 'arte'.

Verbs referencing "artifact"

Finnish Nouns artefakti.