artefact

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artefact (plural artefacts)

1. (Australian spelling, British spelling) Alternative spelling of artifact.
   • 1960, Alan Houghton Brodrick, “The Pithecanthropoids”, in Man and His Ancestry‎^[1], London: The Scientific Book Club, →OCLC, page 134:

     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.

• “artefact”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• farctate

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• IPA^(key): /ɑr.tə.fɑkt/

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• Hyphenation: ar‧te‧fact

artefact n (plural artefacten, diminutive artefactje n)

1. artifact

• → Indonesian: artefak

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artefact m (plural artefacts)

1. alternative form of artéfact

Borrowed from French artéfact.

artefact n (uncountable)

1. artifact