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Cultural artifact is a more generic term and should be considered with two words of similar, but narrower, nuance: it can include objects recovered from archaeological sites, i.e. archaeological artifacts, but can also include objects of modern or early-modern society, or social artifacts.
artifact A physical object made by humans. assemblage A set of artefacts or ecofacts found together, from the same place and time. [6] [7] Can refer to the total assemblage from a site, or a specific type of artefact, e.g. lithic assemblage, zooarchaeological assemblage. [8] association
In end-user development an artifact is either an application or a complex data object that is created by an end-user without the need to know a general programming language. Artifacts describe automated behavior or control sequences, such as database requests or grammar rules, [1] or user-generated content. Artifacts vary in their maintainability.
Artifact Creek, a stream in British Columbia, Canada; Artifact Ridge, a mountain ridge in British Columbia, Canada; Artifacting, a technique used on some older computers to generate color in monochrome modes by exploiting artifacts of analog television systems; Learning artifact (education), an object created by students during the course of ...
An artifact [a] or artefact (British English) is a general term for an item made or given shape by humans, such as a tool or a work of art, especially an object of archaeological interest. [1] In archaeology , the word has become a term of particular nuance; it is defined as an object recovered by archaeological endeavor, including cultural ...
A contronym is a word with two opposite meanings. For example, the word original can mean "authentic, traditional", or "novel, never done before". This feature is also called enantiosemy, [1] [2] enantionymy (enantio-means "opposite"), antilogy or autoantonymy. An enantiosemic term is by definition polysemic.
Megan Davidhizar received two rubber ducks from her students during her first year teaching high school freshmen 16 years ago. She displayed them on her desk and other students saw the ducks and ...
The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).