simulation

1. 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) (synset 100900747)
   is a type of: model, modeling, modelling - the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale)
   subtypes: war game - a simulation of a military operation intended to train military commanders or to demonstrate a situation or to test a proposed strategy
2. (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program (synset 105674544)
   "a simulation should imitate the internal processes and not merely the results of the thing being simulated"
   referred to in: computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures
   associated with:

   • time-scale factor - the ratio of the simulation time to the time of the real process
   • extended time scale, slow time scale - (simulation) the time scale used in data processing when the time-scale factor is greater than one
   • fast time scale - (simulation) the time scale used in data processing when the time-scale factor is less than one
   is a type of:

   • technique - a practical method or art applied to some particular task
   • framework, model, theoretical account - a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
   same as: computer simulation
3. Representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale) (synset 103782816)
   is a type of: representation - a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something
   subtypes:

   • figure - a model of a bodily form (especially of a person)
   • globe - a sphere on which a map (especially of the earth) is represented
   • mock-up - full-scale working model of something built for study or testing or display
   • planetarium - an apparatus or model for representing the solar systems
   • restoration - a model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc.
   • roughcast - a rough preliminary model
   same as: model
4. The act of giving a false appearance (synset 100756299)
   "his conformity was only pretending"
   is a type of: deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation - the act of deceiving
   subtypes:

   • appearance, show - pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression
   • make-believe, pretend - the enactment of a pretense
   • affectation, affectedness, mannerism, pose - a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
   • charade, masquerade - making a false outward show
   same as: feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense

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