SkyfireDict

simulation   (TTS Sound)

The noun simulation has 4 senses

• simulation -- (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))


• simulation, computer simulation -- ((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")


• model, simulation -- (representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale))


• pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning -- (the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending")