not genuine, simulated
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Artificial Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
Artificial Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers.
Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers.
(a.)
Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine.
Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine.
(a.)
Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as, artificial grasses.
Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as, artificial grasses.
(a.)
Artful; cunning; crafty.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutArtful; cunning; crafty.
artificial
\ar`ti*fi"cial\ (&?;), a. [l. artificialis, fr. artificium: cf. f. artificiel. see artifice.]
1. made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. artificial strife lives in these touches, livelier than life.
2. feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine. "artificial tears."
3. artful; cunning; crafty. [obs.]
4. cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as, artificial grasses.
artificial
arguments (rhet.), arguments invented by the speaker, in distinction from laws, authorities, and the like, which are called inartificial arguments or proofs.
artificial
classification (science), an arrangement based on superficial characters, and not expressing the true natural relations species; as, "the artificial system" in botany, which is the same as the linn?an system.
artificial
horizon. see under horizon.
artificial
light, any light other than that which proceeds from the heavenly bodies.
artificial
lines, lines on a sector or scale, so contrived as to represent the logarithmic sines and tangents, which, by the help of the line of numbers, solve, with tolerable exactness, questions in trigonometry, navigation, etc.
artificial
numbers, logarithms.
artificial
person (law). see under person.
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sines,
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Adjective
1. contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"
(synonym) unreal
(antonym) natural
(similar) arranged, staged
(see-also) counterfeit, imitative
2. artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"
(synonym) contrived, hokey, stilted
(similar) affected, unnatural
3. not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes
(similar) inorganic
Artificial Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries
Artificial Life
Exchange: Nasdaq
Develops, markets and supports software programs which automate and simplify time-consuming and complex business-related internet functions, such as web navigation, direct marketing, user profiling, information gathering, messaging, knowledge management, sales response and call center automation; And provides software consulting services
Exchange: Nasdaq
Develops, markets and supports software programs which automate and simplify time-consuming and complex business-related internet functions, such as web navigation, direct marketing, user profiling, information gathering, messaging, knowledge management, sales response and call center automation; And provides software consulting services
Artificial Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
See also: Synthetic (disambiguation)
or may refer to:
or may refer to:
- Artificial beaches
- Artificial chemistry
- Artificial consciousness
- Artificial creation
- Artificial elements
- Artificial flower
- Artificial food
- Artificial fuel
- Artificial harmonic
- Artificial immune system
- Artificial ingredient
- Artificial insemination
- Artificial intelligence
- Artificial intelligence systems integration
- Artificial island
- Artificial leather
- Artificial language
- Artificial life
- Artificial music
- Artificial neural network
- Artificial organs
- Artificial blood
- Artificial heart
- Artificial heart valve
- Artificial joint
- Artificial limb
- C-Leg, an artificial knee
- Artificial pacemaker
- Artificial person
- Artificial society
- Artificial turf
- Artificial substance
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Artificial Definition from Entertainment & Music Dictionaries & Glossaries
Artificial Definition from Medicine Dictionaries & Glossaries
adjective
which is made by man, which is not a natural part of the body; artificial cartilage; artificial kidney; artificial lung; artificial leg
artificial insemination = introduction of semen into a woman's womb by artificial means
see also AID, AIH
artificial respiration = way of reviving someone who has stopped breathing (as by mouth-to-mouth resuscitation)
artificial ventilation = breathing which is assisted or controlled by a machine
which is made by man, which is not a natural part of the body; artificial cartilage; artificial kidney; artificial lung; artificial leg
artificial insemination = introduction of semen into a woman's womb by artificial means
see also AID, AIH
artificial respiration = way of reviving someone who has stopped breathing (as by mouth-to-mouth resuscitation)
artificial ventilation = breathing which is assisted or controlled by a machine
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