Artificial
Translation- Artificial
- 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.
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Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
2. Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine. ``Artificial tears.'' --Shak. [1913 Webster]
3. Artful; cunning; crafty. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
4. Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as, artificial grasses. --Gibbon. [1913 Webster]
{Artificial arguments} (Rhet.), arguments invented by the speaker, in distinction from laws, authorities, and the like, which are called inartificial arguments or proofs. --Johnson.
{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[ae]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}.
{Artificial sines}, {tangents}, etc., the same as logarithms of the natural sines, tangents, etc. --Hutton. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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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 … Wikipedia
artificial — 1> искусственный, не природный Ex: artificial flowers искусственные цветы Ex: artificial satellite искусственный спутник (Земли) Ex: artificial daylight искусственный дневной свет Ex: artificial atmosphere кондиционированный воздух 2>… … Новый большой англо-русский словарь
Artificial — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda El Wikcionario tiene una definición para artificial. Artificial es algo que no es natural. Su sentido original, en relación con un artefacto o artificio, se refiere a un producto de la actividad humana; como sinónimo … Wikipedia Español
artificial — 1. adj. 1) искусственный artificial butter artificialinsemination artificial respiration artificial atmosphere artificialintelligence artificial numbers 2) притворный artificial year гражданскийили календарный год (в отличие от астрономического)… … Англо-русский словарь Мюллера
artificial — 1. hecho por el trabajo humano como sustituto de algo que es natural. 2. simulado, que resulta del arte de la imitación del natural. Diccionario Mosby Medicina, Enfermería y Ciencias de la Salud, Ediciones Hancourt, S.A. 1999 … Diccionario médico
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artificial — adjective Date: 14th century 1. humanly contrived often on a natural model ; man made < an artificial limb > < artificial diamonds > 2. a. having existence in legal, economic, or … New Collegiate Dictionary
artificial — artificially, adv. artificialness, n. /ahr teuh fish euhl/, adj. 1. made by human skill; produced by humans (opposed to natural): artificial flowers. 2. imitation; simulated; sham: artificial vanilla flavoring. 3. lacking naturalness or… … Universalium
artificial — искусственный ; мнимый ; фиктивный ; ? artificial capital ; ? artificial person ; ? artificial sample ; ? artificial transactions ; … Англо-Русский словарь финансовых терминов
artificial — ˌɑ:tɪˈfɪʃəl прил. 1) искусственный, ненатуральный, не природный artificial respiration ≈ искусственное дыхание artificial atmosphere ≈ кондиционированный … Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь
Фильмы
- First Soviet Earth Satellites., 1957 — Annotation: About work of Soviet scientists at creation of spacecrafts; launch of the first artificial Earth satellite. Film description: Scheme of the rocket and spacecraft mock-up of Tsiolkovsky…
- Rowing and Canoeing. The Olympic Games-80., 1981 — Annotation: The opening of the Olympic Games. Rowing and Canoeing on an artificial row channel in the Moscow district of Krylatskoe. History: The story of the channel, the use of the printing…
- India is Our Friend, 1982 — Annotation: About the life of the modern India and cooperation with the USSR. Film description: Newsreel, 1947: over the Red Fort down the British flag and raised the Indian flag. Nehru advocated…