Simulation (Noun)
Meaning 1
The act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending".
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 2
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).
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The pilots trained in a flight simulation to prepare for emergency situations.
- The university's business program uses a stock market simulation to teach students about investment strategies.
- The computer simulation predicted a 50% chance of the new medication being effective.
- The simulation of a hurricane helped meteorologists understand the storm's potential impact on coastal cities.
- The army's military simulation trained soldiers for urban warfare scenarios.
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Meaning 3
(computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program; "a simulation should imitate the internal processes and not merely the results of the thing being simulated".
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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
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Meaning 4
Representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale).
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.