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English noun: simulation | |||
| 1. | simulation (act) 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) | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | model, modeling, modelling | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | war game | ||
| 2. | simulation (cognition) (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program | ||
| Samples | A simulation should imitate the internal processes and not merely the results of the thing being simulated. | ||
| Synonyms | computer simulation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | framework, model, technique, theoretical account | ||
| Domain category | computer science, computing | ||
| Domain category members | extended time scale, fast time scale, slow time scale, time-scale factor | ||
| 3. | simulation (artifact) representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale) | ||
| Synonyms | model | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | representation | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | figure, globe, mock-up, planetarium, restoration, roughcast | ||
| 4. | simulation (act) the act of giving a false appearance | ||
| Samples | His conformity was only pretending. | ||
| Synonyms | feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | affectation, affectedness, appearance, make-believe, mannerism, masquerade, pose, pretend, show | ||
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