Noun
a man-made object taken as a whole
Source: WordNetIn Tetrad form, the artefact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground. Marshall McLuhan
Moreover the incorporation requires the same components needed for protein synthesis, and is inhibited by the same inhibitors. Thus the system is most unlikely to be a complete artefact and is very probably closely related to genuine protein synthesis. Francis Crick
Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness. Hilary Mantel
Discourse occurs at the silent level of the artefact and is continuously presenced in the world as such. It is a discourse which is not, and cannot be, articulated in speech. Christopher Tilley
A century-old football club is a cultural artefact, not a business, and the fans are its curators, not its customers. Source: Internet
After the metre was redefined in 1960, the kilogram was the only SI base unit that relied on a specific artefact. Source: Internet