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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
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