ETYM Latin artificialis, from artificium: cf. French artificiel. Related to Artifice.
1. Artificially formal; SYN. contrived, stilted.
2. Contrived by art rather than nature; SYN. unreal.
3. Not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes.

Singular of artificial flowers is artificial flower.

Množina: artificial horizons

A navigational instrument based on a gyroscope; provides an artificial horizon for the pilot; SYN. gyro horizon, flight indicator.
A gyroscopic flight instrument designed to indicate aircraft attitude with respect to the true horizon.

Množina: artificial inseminations

See artificial insemination.(AI) Introduction by instrument of semen from a sperm bank or donor into the female reproductive tract to bring about fertilization. Originally used by animal breeders to improve stock with sperm from high-quality males, in the 20th century it has been developed for use in humans, to help the infertile. See in vitro fertilization.
The sperm for artificial insemination may come from the husband (AIH) or a donor (AID).
The introduction of semen into the oviduct or uterus by some means other than sexual intercourse; SYN. AI.

Množina: artificial intelligences

(AI) Branch of science concerned with creating computer programs that can perform actions comparable with those of an intelligent human. Current AI research covers such areas as planning (for robot behavior), language understanding, pattern recognition, and knowledge representation.
Early AI programs, developed in the 1960s, attempted simulations of human intelligence or were aimed at general problem-solving techniques. It is now thought that intelligent behavior depends as much on the knowledge a system possesses as on its reasoning power. Present emphasis is on knowledge-based systems, such as expert systems. Britain's largest AI laboratory is at the Turing Institute, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. In 1990 the first International Robot Olympics was held there, including table-tennis matches between robots of the US and the UK.
The branch of computer science concerned with enabling computers to simulate such aspects of human intelligence as speech recognition, deduction, inference, creative response, the ability to learn from experience, and the ability to make inferences given incomplete information. Two common areas of artificial-intelligence research are expert systems and natural-language processing. Acronym: AI. See also expert system, natural-language processing.
The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively; SYN. AI.

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Množina: artificial respirations

An emergency procedure whereby respiration that is maintained artificially.
Emergency procedure to restart breathing once it has stopped; in cases of electric shock or apparent drowning, for example, the first choice is the expired-air method, the kiss of life by mouth-to-mouth breathing until natural breathing is restored.