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artefactual, a.|ɑːtɪˈfæktjuːəl|
Also arti-.
[f. artefact n. + -ual, as in factual, etc.: see -al1.]
1. a. Archæol. That consists of or pertains to an artefact or artefacts.
1950Antiquity XXIV. 193 Much of the interest of the catalogue of Jarmo materials lies in the non-artifactual materials. 1956Ibid XXX. 224 In western Asia, we can now show that the village, as an architectural (artifactual) manifestation, is the hall-mark of the appearance of the second phase. 1963Kwang-chih Chang Archaeol. Anc. China 1 The study of bygone cultures and civilizations by means of their artifactual remains has never ceased to be a part of the historical method. 1979P. L. Brown Megaliths & Masterminds 88 The strongest artefactual evidence of Mediterranean trade lay in the finding of the so-called faience beads. 1983–84Rescue News Winter 4/3 The artefactual database is being enlarged.
b. gen. Of or pertaining to man-made or manufactured objects.
1960M. Scriven in S. Hook Dimensions of Mind xiii. 119 If we define ‘machine’ as an inanimate artifactual device, we cannot go on to ask whether machines might one day be conscious. 1966T. Leary Politics of Ecstasy xi. 170 I'll teach them how to live as an animal and as a creature of nature..before I will force artifactual symbols..on their 2-billion-year-old cellular machineries. 1979Amer. Speech 1978 LIII. 268 The basis for sound symbolism, provided we allow properly for regional and artifactual differences in environments, is presumably a human universal. 1979Encounter Oct. 59/2 Other artifactual fields of endeavour have in the past been made to play this false role of an all-seeing mirror to man, notably clothes, ornaments and sculpture. 1981B. A. Farrell Standing of Psychoanal. iv. 62 The material also contains a manufactured, or artefactual component.
2. Of a scientific observation or phenomenon: of the nature of an artefact; arising from the method of procedure; spurious, artificial.
1962D. G. Cogan in A. Pirie Lens Metabolism Rel. Cataract 293 When the lens substance does survive the sectioning and mounting, artefactual clefts and vacuoles are regularly present. 1972Jrnl. Social Psychol. LXXXVIII. 304 Eye contact results in the latter study could be regarded as artifactual. 1973Nature 21/28 Dec. 511/1 Extreme care must be taken when using spatial filtering methods to improve the quality of very noisy images, or an artefactual structure defined by the spatial filter may be generated in the reconstructed image. 1977Lancet 2 July 34/2 The rare finding of a low plasma-total-CO2 (‘bicarbonate’) with no obvious reason should immediately lead the chemical pathologist to exclude artefactual causes such as a small or old blood specimen.
Hence arteˈfactually adv., by artefactual means, as a result of the occurrence of an artefact (sense b); artificially.
1962D. G. Cogan in A. Pirie Lens Metabolism Rel. Cataract i. Plate 3 (caption) The epithelium is artefactually separated from superficial fibres in the upper right hand corner. 1971Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. Jan. 158 Quite artifactually, therefore, the ‘recognition’ score for X was elevated. 1976Path. Ann. XI. 213 (caption) In this thymic carcinoid, a ball with necrotic calcified center has artefactually detached from the stroma. 1977Lancet 1 Jan. 46/2 Large doses of toxic compounds administered as antagonists may themselves artifactually diminish fluid production by damaging the test animal. |