Item vs. Artifact — What's the Difference?

A single article or unit in a collection, enumeration, or series.

An object produced or shaped by human craft, especially a tool, weapon, or ornament of archaeological or historical interest.

A clause of a document, such as a bill or charter.

Something viewed as a product of human conception or agency rather than an inherent element

An entry in an account.

A phenomenon or feature not originally present or expected and caused by an interfering external agent, action, or process, as an unwanted feature in a microscopic specimen after fixation, in a digitally reproduced image, or in a digital audio recording.

A bit of information; a detail.

An inaccurate observation, effect, or result, especially one resulting from the technology used in scientific investigation or from experimental error

A short piece in a newspaper or magazine.

An object made or shaped by human hand or labor.

A romantically involved couple

An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.

Also; likewise. Used to introduce each article in an enumeration or list.

Something viewed as a product of human agency or conception rather than an inherent element.

To record, especially in an itemized list.

A finding or structure in an experiment or investigation that is not a true feature of the object under observation, but is a result of external action, the test arrangement, or an experimental error.

A distinct physical object.

(archaeology) An object, such as a tool, ornament, or weapon of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.

An object that can be picked up for later use.

(biology) An appearance or structure in protoplasm due to death, the method of preparation of specimens, or the use of reagents, and not present during life.

A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account.

(computing) A perceptible distortion that appears in an audio or video file or a digital image as a result of applying a lossy compression or other inexact processing algorithm.

(psychometrics) A question on a test, which may include its answers.

(museology) Any object in the collection of a museum. May be used sensu stricto only for human-made objects, or may include ones that are not human-made.

A matter for discussion in an agenda.

A product of human workmanship; - applied esp. to the simpler products of aboriginal art as distinguished from natural objects.

(informal) Two people who are having a romantic or sexual relationship with each other.

Any product of human workmanship; - applied both to objects made for practical purposes as well as works of art. It is contrasted to natural object, i.e. anything produced by natural forces without the intervention of man.

A short article in a newspaper.

A structure or appearance in protoplasm due to death, method of preparation of specimens, or the use of reagents, and not present during life.

(obsolete) A hint; an innuendo.

An object, oservation, phenomenon, or result arising from hidden or unexpected causes extraneous to the subject of a study, and therefore spurious and having potential to lead one to an erroneous conclusion, or to invalidate the study. In experimental science, artifacts may arise due to inadvertant contamination of equipment, faulty experimental design or faulty analysis, or unexpected effects of agencies not known to affect the system under study.

(India) item girl

A man-made object taken as a whole

(transitive) To make a note of.

Likewise

Also; as an additional article.

An article; a separate particular in an account; as, the items in a bill; he picked up four items at the drug store.

A hint; an innuendo.

A short article in a newspaper; a paragraph; as, an item concerning the weather.

A topic or piece of information having the salacious character of gossip, especially a romantic relation between two people; as, I hear that the boss and his new secretary are an item.

To make a note or memorandum of.

A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list;

A whole individual unit; especially when included in a list or collection;

A small part that can be considered separately from the whole;

An isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole;

An individual instance of a type of symbol;

(used when listing or enumerating items) also;