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.
1) A call or play that is not natural. 2) A bidding system that contains many such calls.
(1) not natural;(2) (of a call) (a) not indicating a desire to play in the named (or, if not a bid, in the last-named) strain; or (b) offering information relevant to a specific strain other than the one named (or, if not a bid, the last-named); or both;(2) (of a bidding system) consisting significantly or more of agreements that actions, or most early-in-the-auction actions, are artificial.
Produced by man, made as an imitation of a natural product.
A bid that means something other than what it sounds like. A convention.
contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"
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"
not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes
something that is not normally made by nature. It is man-made.