Artefact

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    British standard spelling of artifact.

    "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."

  2. 2
    a man-made object taken as a whole wordnet

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"Block time is the entirety of time, including the past, present and future, coexisting in a four-dimensional spacetime block called a "block universe." If one inhabits a block universe, one's view of time as only ever moving forward steadily is merely an illusion, a physical artefact that is mathematical."

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