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adjective

made by human skill; produced by humans (opposed to natural): artificial flowers.

imitation; simulated; sham: artificial vanilla flavoring.

lacking naturalness or spontaneity; forced; contrived; feigned: an artificial smile.

full of affectation; affected; stilted: artificial manners; artificial speech.

made without regard to the particular needs of a situation, person, etc.; imposed arbitrarily; unnatural: artificial rules for dormitory residents.

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Biology. based on arbitrary, superficial characteristics rather than natural, organic relationships: an artificial system of classification.

Jewelry. manufactured to resemble a natural gem, in chemical composition or appearance. Compare assembled, imitation (def. 11), synthetic (def. 6).

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin artificiālis contrived by art; see artifice, -al¹

Related forms

ar·ti·fi·cial·ly, adverb

ar·ti·fi·cial·ness, noun

o·ver·ar·ti·fi·cial, adjective

o·ver·ar·ti·fi·cial·ly, adverb

su·per·ar·ti·fi·cial, adjective

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su·per·ar·ti·fi·cial·ly, adverb

un·ar·ti·fi·cial, adjective

un·ar·ti·fi·cial·ly, adverb

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Synonyms
1. synthetic. 2, 3. counterfeit, factitious. 4. pretentious.

Antonyms
2. genuine, real.

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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
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For the first time in history, surgeons early today implanted a permanent artificial heart to replace a dying human heart.

Removing the artificial wall between academic and public history is long overdue.

Mimicking the behaviour of ants, bees and birds started as a poor man's version of artificial intelligence.

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For the first time in history, surgeons early today implanted a permanent artificial heart to replace a dying human heart.

Removing the artificial wall between academic and public history is long overdue.

Mimicking the behaviour of ants, bees and birds started as a poor man's version of artificial intelligence.

For hatchling sea turtles, artificial light is a killer.

Synthetic biology might someday lead to artificial organisms.

The engines of the great food factories will be driven, not by artificial combustion, but by the underlying heat of the globe.

Backed by a guest house, an artificial creek doubles as a kid-size wading pool and water play area.

Artificial intelligence pioneers point to advances made in law, medicine and other arenas as proof of the vitality of their work.

Clark's bed, a video display terminal shows the amount of blood his artificial heart pumps with each beat.

It arose at the intersection of artificial intelligence and statistics, and in many ways it is the technological answer to the.

Artificial lighting seems to be taking the largest toll on bird populations.

The goal of building a safe artificial heart has frustrated bioengineers for more than four decades.

The paleontologists ran thirteen trials by filling their artificial burrow with a mixture of water, clay, and sand.

Here's another situation where artificial turf made sense.

Making artificial limbs that can perform gross motor functions is relatively easy.

They must be tailored with specialized software, perhaps igniting a new industry for artificial intelligence applications.

Thus the college requirement of excellence in teaching and scholarship is a purely artificial construct.

Strangest of all, many want their beloved artificial sweeteners to be less artificial.

Small artificial ponds stored water that could be use to flood rice paddies.

Consumers in recent years have increasingly gone organic, seeking brands of milk from dairies that nix artificial hormones.

The researchers then trained nectar-eating bats to find a feeder hidden in artificial foliage.

Natural turkeys have been minimally processed, with no artificial ingredients or coloring added.

Researchers in artificial intelligence today are beginning a race to offset an epidemic of age-related memory loss.

Artificial knees have become a commonplace among aging baby boomers and their parents.

Maybe you'll mangle his paper clips, leave a book open on the wrong page, or hide his basket of artificial petunias.

He has since gone on to become a leading light in the development of artificial limbs.

Bridges aren't the only artificial bat habitat that has proven appealing to the flying mammals.

Synthetic biology is the creation of artificial life.

Inefficient central power generation is protected by a glacier of artificial barriers.

And unlike shortenings and artificial fats, butter does literally melt in the mouth.

The debate over standardizing science will continue as artificial intelligence continues to improve.

Finally, a beam of artificial rays from the accelerator is added to the mix.

In some cases, artificial lakes and breeding centers can be the only places where experts can study rare species in the flesh.

Such broad vision holds tremendous appeal for the makers--and users--of artificial lenses.

He'd always been obsessed with robots and artificial intelligence.

The mantra is applied as much to the rainforest and the rest of the natural world as to the artificial.

The researchers then counted the numbers of both damselfish and cardinalfish that settled on the artificial reefs.

Instead of wasting time on hydrogen, look into technologies for creating artificial gasoline.

Microchips promise to make artificial legs as good as new.

Ammonia is difficult to produce on a large scale but is a vital component of artificial fertilizers.

Look at how people use artificial intelligence today.

The mostly plastic bot features an extendable foot powered by an artificial muscle.

Bioinformatics involves the use of artificial intelligence algorithms to solve biological problems usually on the molecular level.

Germany was the first state to adopt the time changes, to reduce artificial lighting and thereby save coal for the war effort.

Kuiken has also had success in rerouting sensory nerves to give artificial limbs some degree of tactile feedback to their wearers.

Artificial lighting long ago reduced the importance of the moon to farmers and gardeners, but the name has stuck.

Maybe with high-speed, fast-forward videotapes you could train these things in artificial worlds in six minutes.

Artificial organisms could behave in unexpected ways, or mutate out of control, critics say.

The best artificial intelligence isn't all-knowing and powerful.

Artificial sweeteners don't have any calories, but they might make you fatter than real sugar.

Handmade artificial life isn't going to form the basis of the next century of synthetic biology.

Proposals for artificial turf fields have created tensions between athletic boosters and neighbors who oppose the fields.

The ships often become artificial reefs and habitats, providing shelter for the.

Schroeder, living on a permanent artificial heart, and his mental.

Artificial nanotech is about to give them a helping hand.

Artificial lighting is making songbirds start singing earlier in the day, with possible consequences for breeding.

Artificial rainmaking is an imprecise, environmentally hazardous process, but it could be made a little more eco-friendly with.

Splenda, the popular artificial sweetener, is going brown.

Barclay has published plans for an artificial burrow that is used in many locations.

Cranking up the artificial cool is one way to escape the heat this month.

The first artificial organelle may help lead to safer heparin production and, someday, entire artificial cells.

The glove allows you to reach out and pick up an artificial object, say a ball, and throw.

Artificial chromosomes and in vitro screening are giving new life to the eugenics debate.

It is a long-held dream: an artificial heart to replace one that is damaged or diseased.

One goal is to deliver better recommendations and more songs through improved artificial intelligence.

Ask students to hypothesize how fishermen, divers, and ecologists might feel about these artificial reefs.

Theoretical models suggest ways for optimizing artificial photosynthesis to turn light into.

Solomonoff was a physicist who was one of the founders of the field of artificial intelligence.

Fiction ans nonfiction these artificial categories created by critics their selfishness.

In this context patenting an artificial genome for a bacterium seems reasonable.

The games and a post-tournament symposium were organized to spur interest and research in robotics and artificial intelligence.

PH-balanced concrete artificial reefs placed at the bottom of the ocean.

Any foods that have come into contact with pesticides, herbicides or contain artificial additives are also out.

To avoid the artificial coloring common in prepared green wasabi, make your own by blending up nuts with fresh horseradish.

Artificial gills for humans, a dream of swimmers from time immemorial, seem to be on the horizon.

IT also, by not releasing how it does what it does may actually prevent artificial inflation.

Yet these artificial persons have always provoked worries, too.

Light pollution in the broad sense refers to any nighttime artificial light that shines where it's not.

Unlike collagen gels, this new type of artificial skin has high mechanical stability and is pliable.

Cancer will be cured, and artificial limbs will outperform natural ones.

Baughman became interested in carbon nanotubes while designing artificial muscles from energy-conducting polymers.

Despite a link to hyperactivity in some children, artificial dyes save us from unappetizing grays.

Just as artificial sweeteners can be sweeter than sugar, unreal events can be more moving than real ones.

There is a suggestion in the data that productivity was more responsive to changes in artificial than natural light.

Bright artificial light from nearby developments can outshine the natural glow.

Before he was selected as the second recipient of a permanent artificial heart, his doctors had given.

The vacuum surrounding it buzzes with artificial satellites, forming a sort of technosphere beyond the atmosphere.

They were introduced to artificial spawning beds containing wild adults collected from a local river.

In development: an artificial flower that kills pathogens in disease-carrying mosquitoes but spares the bugs.

In the research field known as artificial intelligence, reality is finally catching up to the science-fiction hype.

To detect artificial neutrinos using existing telescopes means screening out the natural neutrino background.

Though light pillars are often caused by artificial light.

These films can readily form a slick on artificial hips.

Previous artificial hands had only a thumb and forefinger that worked in a clawlike grasping action.

Like mechanized dentures, a new chewing robot will test the toll that munching takes on novel artificial teeth materials.

In that field, the technique is used to paint realistic reflections of one artificial object on another, among other things.

Contrails are artificial clouds that form around the tiny aerosol particles in airplane exhaust.

Berkeley researchers are testing artificial microfibers that imitate those a gecko uses to cling to wet surfaces.

The artificial intelligence that drives your videogame war buddies makes them seem uncannily human.

Some birds-blackbirds and nightingales, among others-sing at unnatural hours in the presence of artificial light.

New developments in exoskeleton technology promise to improve the performance of artificial limbs and.

The builders of the museum will either have to clean the water or replace it entirely with an artificial lagoon.

Infusing artificial organs with such complex vasculature has proved more difficult.

They have found a way to create a stronger and safer frame than the artificial bone scaffolds currently in use.

During the night artificial lights can confuse the birds and cause them to crash into telephone poles and other objects.

It will always be easier to make organic brains by unskilled labor than to create a machine-based artificial intelligence.

Dawkins's revolutionary evolutionary rhetoric has particularly inspired researchers of artificial life.

If artificial lights are present, they often head toward those lights instead and fail to reach the sea.

We already use artificial reefs to rebuild populations of marine life.

The artificial current interrupts or corrects dysfunctional electrical activity that is causing medical problems.

Artificial intelligence researchers routinely said that computers capable of beating our best were literally unthinkable.

Well-planned communities balance natural and artificial spaces.

But society has determined that such a risk is not worth taking given that artificial food additives are not a necessity.

The chip is implanted directly under the retina to generate artificial vision by stimulating inner retina nerve cells.

Drugs provide this, though in different ways, in an artificial form.

To make artificial intelligence tical reality takes more than product innovation.

All, however, were instantly recognizable as artificial creations.

GM where you use artificial genes to silence gene expression.

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World English Dictionary

artificial (ˌɑːtɪˈfɪʃəl)

—*adj*
1.	produced by man; not occurring naturally: artificial materials of great strength
2.	made in imitation of a natural product, esp as a substitute; not genuine: artificial cream
3.	pretended; assumed; insincere: an artificial manner
4.	lacking in spontaneity; affected: an artificial laugh
5.	biology relating to superficial characteristics not based on the interrelationships of organisms: an artificial classification

[C14: from Latin artificiālis belonging to art, from artificium skill, artifice]

artificiality

—n

arti'ficially

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

artificial

late 14c., "made by man" (opposite of natural), from O.Fr. artificial, from L. artificialis "of or belonging to art," from artificium (see artifice). Another early use was in the phrase artificial day "part of the day from sunrise to sunset" (late 14c.). Artificial insemination

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dates from 1897. Artificial intelligence "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines" was coined in 1956.

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