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artefact

artefact noun: UK standard spelling of artifact.

Noun

artefact (plural artefacts)

  1. UK standard spelling of artifact.
    • Palaeolithic implements have been recovered from 1953 in the Ordos and in Shansi. The most important site is Tingtsun in Hsiangfen county of the latter province. Here were found an abundant fossil fauna, three hominid teeth and over two thousand artefacts of a type more advanced than those of...1960, Alan Houghton Brodrick, “The Pithecanthropoids”, in Man and His Ancestry, London: The Scientific Book Club, →OCLC, page 134

artefact meaning in Tamil and Bengali

artefact in Tamil

கைப்பிசகு, செயற்குற்றம், செயல் குற்றம், செய் குற்றம், கலைத்தொழில் வேலைப்பாடமைந்த பொருள், தொல் கைவினைப்பொருள்

artefact in Bengali

মানুষের তৈরি বস্তু, বিশেষত প্রত্নতাত্ত্বিক নিদর্শন

Examples of artefact in a sentence

  • It's not a museum per se, but they do have some interesting artefacts.
  • This is a valuable artefact and should be treated as such.
  • Physical bookmarks based on collectional artefacts and metadata actions are proposed.

All 22 example sentences with artefact

Forms of artefact

pluralartefacts

Plural of artefact: artefacts

Words formed from artefact

Questions about artefact

What does artefact mean?
Artefact means UK standard spelling of artifact.
What is artefact in Tamil?
Artefact in Tamil is கைப்பிசகு, செயற்குற்றம், செயல் குற்றம். See Artefact meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is artefact?
Artefact is a noun.
What is the plural of artefact?
The plural of artefact is artefacts.

Words near artefact in the dictionary

  1. Arteche
  2. arted up
  3. artedidraconid
  4. artedidraconids
  5. arteether
  6. artefact
  7. artefacted
  8. artefacting
  9. artefactitious
  10. artefactitiously
  11. artefacts

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: artefact (page history and authors); artefact (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); artefact (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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