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)
- usage: "a simulation should imitate the internal processes and not merely the results of the thing being simulated"
- synonyms: computer simulation
- Representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale.
- synonyms: model
- The act of giving a false appearance.
- usage: "his conformity was only pretending"
- synonyms: pretense, pretence, pretending, feigning
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