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Simulation   /sˌɪmjəlˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Simulation

noun
1.
The act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training).
2.
(computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program.  Synonym: computer simulation.
3.
Representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale).  Synonym: model.
4.
The act of giving a false appearance.  Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense.



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"Simulation" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mal. M,O,A,I. This simulation is not as the former: and yet to crush this a little, it would bow to mee, for euery one of these Letters are in my name. Soft, here followes prose: If this fall into thy hand, reuolue. In my stars I am aboue thee, but be not ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... well-known "Llanthony Abbey," the central passage of sunlight and shadow through rain was done in that way, and she again gave the affirmative reply, emphatically. I was so firmly convinced to the contrary that I was now persuaded that there was a simulation of personality, such as was generally the case with the public mediums, and I said to my brother, who had not heard any of my questions [He says above that they were mental. Ed.] that this was another humbug, and then repeated what had passed, saying that ...
— The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 • Various

... and fixed, knees bent forward. Between the steps, the dancers would stand in this strained, tense position, then move forward a few inches, and so on around the circle. After a little of this business, for that is just what it was, the next part came on, a simulation of fighting: and, as everything before was as stiff, strained, and rigid as it was possible to be, so now everything was light, graceful, agile, and quick; leaps forward and back, leaps sideways, the two combatants maneuvering, as it were, one around the other, for position. It was hard ...
— The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon From Ifugao to Kalinga • Cornelis De Witt Willcox

... inside might vary (unbeknownst to the customer), the shape of the bottle did not. This was the reason proprietors raised such a hue and cry about counterfeiters. The secret of a formula might, if only to a degree, be retained, but simulation of bottle design and printed wrapper was easily accomplished, and to the average customer these externals were ...
— Old English Patent Medicines in America • George B. Griffenhagen

... hesitated again) . . . "well, I'm not a physician, and cannot define accurately; but there are certain nervous diseases—hysterical simulation, nervous affections such as St. Vitus' dance—as well, of course, as purely mental diseases, such ...
— Dawn of All • Robert Hugh Benson


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