Artificial
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Look up artificial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
"Man-made" redirects here. For other uses, see Man-made (disambiguation).
Artificial is something which is not natural. Its original sense, related to artifact and artifice, refers to a product of human endeavor; a more English but gendered synonym is man-made. It is also used to mean "false", a substitute for the real thing, as in artificial turf or artificial sweetener.
Examples of the proper use of the term artificial and its metaphorical extensions include:
- Artificial beaches
- Artificial chemistry
- Artificial consciousness
- Artificial creation
- Artificial flavor
- Artificial harmonic
- Artificial heart
- Artificial immune system
- Artificial insemination
- Artificial intelligence
- Artificial intelligence systems integration
- Artificial island
- Artificial life
- Artificial limb
- Artificial organ
- Artificial powered exoskeleton
- Artificial society
 |
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. |
