artefact vs artifact
Definitions
noun
- a man-made object taken as a whole
Examples
Adjoining the visitors shop is Hartlepool Museum, which is stuffed full of artefacts telling the story of the town, particularly its maritime heritage.
Sometimes his collection of gnomes would be on display, and every anniversary was commemorated by faded buff photographs and artefacts.
The cassette is a pop art artefact now.
Definitions
noun
- a man-made object taken as a whole
Examples
Granted, we have reams of remote sensing data from that first investigation, including the information from the detailed dissection of the spider biot done by Dr. Laura Ernst. But the cosmonauts brought home only one artifact, a tiny piece of some kind of biomechanical flower whose physical characteristics had already irreversibly changed before any of its mysteries could be understood, We have nothing else in the way of souvenirs from that first excursion.
Each project artifact of a project area belongs to exactly one of its team areas.
Conversely, the extrinsic properties of artifacts can provide chronological information that seriation cannot.
