0 an object that is made by a person, such as a tool or a decoration, especially one that is of historical interest: --
The museum's collection includes artefacts dating back to prehistoric times.
Artists, impressed with the manner in which the natural processes around them have shaped the environment, guide these to shape artefacts of their own.
I liked the artefacts added by the time-stretching; they helped create new sounds resembling a sort of mysterious mechanised beast.
Perhaps through the unfolding of the work, artefacts derived from acousmatic music aesthetics could be peeled away.
In addition, the ensemble is aware of precursors that have made experimental audio-visual artefacts in a performance setting.
The contact between a natural element and imagined human artefacts suggests nature modified by human will and action.
Such artefacts mean that care and experience are required to interpret gels accurately, leading to a preference for loci containing tri- or tetra-nucleotide repeat motifs.
Phonetic variations on the surface are considered artefacts of the context or performance-induced anomalies.
Both of these unwanted predictions turn out to be artefacts of the attempt to reproduce the foot-extrametricality analysis.