artifact | meaning of artifact in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishartifactar‧ti‧fact /ˈɑːtəfækt $ ˈɑːr-/ noun [countable] especially American English    x-refanother spelling of artefact► see thesaurus at thingExamples from the Corpusartifact• To date a coin or an artifact is not the same thing as to date the context in which it is found.• Male speaker It's an artifact and a working sundial.• Software, is though, a cultural artifact of the modern world.• Egyptian artifacts• Caterina takes a dagger from the gallery artifact collection and goes to meet him.• The large silk-screen paintings of the 1960s come very close to the hand-made artifact being composed almost entirely of ready-made images.• A single obsidian artifact can not be expected to give a reliable date.• But no dream or artifact looms as large as his words.• Now open to the public, the Bunker is a symbolic artifact on the bridge from the past to the present.