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Simulation

noun

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).

(computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program. Synonym: computer simulation.

Representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale). Synonym: model.

The act of giving a false appearance. Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense.

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"Simulation" Quotes from Famous Books

... off the couch and stood up, shaking his head mutinously, as if tossing a mane, and stamping ponderously with his feet in simulation of ...

— The Little Lady of the Big House • Jack London

... is not the reason," Durrance answered, and he answered quite truthfully. He felt it necessary for both of them that they should separate. He, no less than Ethne, suffered under the tyranny of perpetual simulation. It was only because he knew how much store she set upon carrying out her resolve that two lives should not be spoilt because of her, that he was able to hinder himself from crying out ...

— The Four Feathers • A. E. W. Mason

... It was a fine simulation of outraged discipline, and so life-like that when he spoke of a court martial, the culprit weakened. He opened his mouth. At that Lopez's stern anger became real. He feared the sentinel would ...

— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

... and the doctor for a minute kept up a simulation of physical examination in order to wear away the restraint which Phillida might feel at being abruptly left for a confidential conversation ...

— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston

... to the enemy's standard, or disgraces his honest front by strewing it in the ranks of tyranny or imposture. He may undoubtedly be accused, to a certain degree, of dissimulation, or throwing into shade the thing that is, but never of simulation, or the pretending the thing to be that is not. He is plain and uniform in every thing that he professes, or to which he gives utterance; but, from timidity or irresolution, he keeps back in part the offering which he owes at the shrine ...

— Thoughts on Man - His Nature, Productions and Discoveries, Interspersed with - Some Particulars Respecting the Author • William Godwin

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