Simulation

Noun

 * 1) Something which simulates a system or environment in order to predict actual behaviour.''
 * This exercise is a simulation of actual battle conditions.
 * The most reliable simulation predicts that the hurricane will turn north.
 * 1) The process of simulating.
 * Despite extensive simulation in the design phase, the aircraft failed to behave as expected.
 * 1)  the act of falling over in order to be awarded a foul, when a foul hasn't been committed.

Thesaurus
accordance, acting, adoption, affectation, agreement, alikeness, alliance, analogy, aping, appearance, approach, appropriation, approximation, assimilation, assumption, attitudinizing, bluff, bluffing, borrowed plumes, cheating, closeness, color, coloring, community, comparability, comparison, conformity, copying, correspondence, counterfeiting, deception, delusion, derivation, deriving, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, emulation, facade, face, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity, feigning, feint, following, forgery, four-flushing, fraud, front, gilt, gloss, hit-off, humbug, humbuggery, identity, imitation, impersonation, imposture, impression, infringement, likeness, likening, masquerade, meretriciousness, metaphor, mimesis, mimicking, mirroring, mocking, nearness, onomatopoeia, ostentation, outward show, parallelism, parity, parody, pasticcio, pastiche, pirating, plagiarism, plagiary, playacting, pose, posing, posture, pretense, pretension, pretext, repetition, representation, resemblance, sameness, seeming, semblance, sham, show, similarity, simile, similitude, simulacrum, speciousness, takeoff, taking, varnish, window dressing

Etymology
First attested in 1340. From simulacion:/simulacioun: <  simulation:/simulacion: <  simulationem: from simulo:.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 模擬, 模拟
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: simulaatio, simulointi
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: הדמיה, סימולציה


 * Japanese: 真似
 * Portuguese: simulação
 * Quechua: simsiker
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: симуляция
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: benzetim, simülasyon

Related terms

 * simulate

Noun

 * 1) Simulation

Etymology
From simulationem.