"artefact" meaning in English

See artefact in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-artefact.wav Forms: artefacts [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} artefact (plural artefacts)
  1. (Australian spelling, British spelling) Alternative spelling of artifact Tags: UK, alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: artifact Derived forms: artefactual, macroartefact, microartefact
    Sense id: en-artefact-en-noun-SoKGeypP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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 Pithecanthropus pekinensis.",
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