SIMULATION

• (noun) the act of giving a false appearance

  "his conformity was only pretending"

  synonyms : feigning , pretence , pretending , pretense

• (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)

• (noun) representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale)

  synonyms : model

• (noun) (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"

  synonyms : computer simulation

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