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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              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]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Person \Per"son\, n. [OE. persone, persoun, person, parson, OF.
     persone, F. personne, L. persona a mask (used by actors), a
     personage, part, a person, fr. personare to sound through;
     per + sonare to sound. See Per-, and cf. Parson.]
     1. A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or
        manifestation of individual character, whether in real
        life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an
        assumed character. [Archaic]
  
              His first appearance upon the stage in his new
              person of a sycophant or juggler.     --Bacon.
  
              No man can long put on a person and act a part.
                                                    --Jer. Taylor.
  
              To bear rule, which was thy part And person, hadst
              thou known thyself aright.            --Milton.
  
              How different is the same man from himself, as he
              sustains the person of a magistrate and that of a
              friend!                               --South.
  
     2. The bodily form of a human being; body; outward
        appearance; as, of comely person.
  
              A fair persone, and strong, and young of age.
                                                    --Chaucer.
  
              If it assume my noble father's person. --Shak.
  
              Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined.
                                                    --Milton.
  
     3. A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal
        or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or
        child.
  
              Consider what person stands for; which, I think, is
              a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and
              reflection.                           --Locke.
  
     4. A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any
        person present.
  
     5. A parson; the parish priest. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  
     6. (Theol.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions
        of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost);
        an hypostasis. ``Three persons and one God.'' --Bk. of
        Com. Prayer.
  
     7. (Gram.) One of three relations or conditions (that of
        speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being
        spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence
        also to the verb of which it may be the subject.
  
     Note: A noun or pronoun, when representing the speaker, is
           said to be in the first person; when representing what
           is spoken to, in the second person; when representing
           what is spoken of, in the third person.
  
     8. (Biol.) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the
        compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in
        the narrowest sense, among the higher animals. --Haeckel.
  
              True corms, composed of united person[ae] . . .
              usually arise by gemmation, . . . yet in sponges and
              corals occasionally by fusion of several originally
              distinct persons.                     --Encyc. Brit.
  
     Artificial, or Fictitious, person (Law), a corporation
        or body politic. --blackstone.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Tangent \Tan"gent\, n. [L. tangens, -entis, p. pr. of tangere to
     touch; akin to Gr. ? having seized: cf. F. tangente. Cf.
     Attain, Contaminate, Contingent, Entire, Tact,
     Taste, Tax, v. t.] (Geom.)
     A tangent line curve, or surface; specifically, that portion
     of the straight line tangent to a curve that is between the
     point of tangency and a given line, the given line being, for
     example, the axis of abscissas, or a radius of a circle
     produced. See Trigonometrical function, under Function.
  
     Artificial, or Logarithmic, tangent, the logarithm of
        the natural tangent of an arc.
  
     Natural tangent, a decimal expressing the length of the
        tangent of an arc, the radius being reckoned unity.
  
     Tangent galvanometer (Elec.), a form of galvanometer having
        a circular coil and a short needle, in which the tangent
        of the angle of deflection of the needle is proportional
        to the strength of the current.
  
     Tangent of an angle, the natural tangent of the arc
        subtending or measuring the angle.
  
     Tangent of an arc, a right line, as ta, touching the arc of
        a circle at one extremity a, and terminated by a line ct,
        passing from the center through the other extremity o.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  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.                            --Shak.
  
     2. Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine.
        ``Artificial tears.'' --Shak.
  
     3. Artful; cunning; crafty. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
     4. Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as,
        artificial grasses. --Gibbon.
  
     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.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]


  artificial
       adj 1: contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers";
              "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond";
              "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners" [syn: unreal]
              [ant: natural]
       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" [syn: contrived, hokey,
           stilted]
       3: not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital
          processes

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  artificial
     Ρουμανικά a.
     τεχνητός

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  artificial
     Aragonese a.
     (l en artificial)
     Asturian a.
     (l en artificial)
     Galician a.
     (l en artificial)
     Portuguese a.
     (l en artificial)
     Spanish a.
     (l en artificial)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  artificial
     a.
     man-made; made by humans; of artifice.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  artificial
     Aragonese a.
     (l en artificial)
     Catalan a.
     (l en artificial)
     Portuguese a.
     (l en artificial)
     Spanish a.
     (l en artificial)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  artificial
     Aragonese a.
     (l en artificial)
     Catalan a.
     (l en artificial)
     Portuguese a.
     (l en artificial)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  artificial
     Englanti a.
     1 keinotekoinen, keino-
     2 teennäinen
     Espanja a.
     1 keinotekoinen, keino-
     2 teennäinen

From Albanian Wiktionary [incomplete] (2016-11-13) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sq-ALL-2016-11-13 ]


  artificial
     Shqip a.
     1 Që është bërë ose është prodhuar me mjete të ndryshme nga njeriu,
  jo nga natyrë; i prodhuar me lëndë sintetike; që është bërë sipas
  ngjashmërisë me një send natyror; ''kund''. natyror. ''Lesh (mëndafsh)
  artificial. Lëkurë artificiale. Lule artificiale. Dhëmbë artificialë
  dhëmbë të vënë. Frymëmarrje artificiale. mjek. Shi artificial. Liqen
  artificial. Satelit artificial. Rritje artificiale. Kushte
  artificiale.''
     2 Që sillet në mënyrë jo të natyrshme; jo i çiltër, i shtirë, i
  rremë. ''Sjellje artificiale. Buzëqeshje artificiale. Lot artificiale
  lot të rremë, lot krokodili.''<ref>Fjalori elektronik shpjegues
  FESH 1.0</ref>

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  artificial
     Portugisiska a.
     1 artificiell, konstgjord
     2 onaturlig
     Spanska a.
     1 artificiell, konstgjord
     2 onaturlig

From English-Afrikaans FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-afr ]


  artificial /ˌɑːtɪfˈɪʃəl/
  1. kunstig
  2. onnatuurlik

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]


  Artificial /ˌɑːtɪfˈɪʃəl/
  صناعيّ

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  artificial //ˌɑː(ɹ).təˈfɪʃ.əl// 
  1. прикрит
  false, misleading
  2. изку́ствен, изкуствен
  man-made
  3. неестествен, принуден
  unnatural