English to English noun
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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) | | source: wordnet30
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(computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program | | Example: a simulation should imitate the internal processes and not merely the results of the thing being simulated
source: wordnet30
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representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale) | | source: wordnet30
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the act of giving a false appearance | | Example: his conformity was only pretending
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The act of simulating, or assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true; -- distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what is true. | | source: webster1913
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