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SIMULATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of giving a false appearance
Example:
his conformity was only pretending
Synonyms:
feigning; pretence; pretending; pretense; simulation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("simulation" is a kind of...):
deceit; deception; dissembling; dissimulation (the act of deceiving)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "simulation"):
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)
Derivation:
simulate (make a pretence of)
Sense 2
Meaning:
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)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("simulation" is a kind of...):
model; modeling; modelling (the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "simulation"):
war game (a simulation of a military operation intended to train military commanders or to demonstrate a situation or to test a proposed strategy)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale)
Synonyms:
model; simulation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("simulation" is a kind of...):
representation (a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "simulation"):
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)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(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
Synonyms:
computer simulation; simulation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("simulation" is a kind 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)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
Domain member category:
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)
Derivation:
simulate (create a representation or model of)
Context examples:
The main areas of support include: cost and cost-effectiveness analyses of programs and initiatives, quality of life and functional status assessment, psychosocial outcome and satisfaction evaluation, survey design and research, and simulation modeling.
(Cancer Clinical and Economic Outcomes Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
Computer simulations have shown that 16% of pairs of supermassive black holes in colliding galaxies will have interacted with a third supermassive black hole before they merge.
(Three Black Holes on Collision Course, NASA)
That could soon change, according to new simulations conducted by a team at Vanderbilt University, Georgia Tech, California Institute of Technology, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, on what's next for gravitational wave astronomy.
(Observing 'black hole symphony' using gravitational wave astronomy, National Science Foundation)
Simulations used to describe the motion of molecules in solution, generally discounting the effects of inertia.
(Brownian Dynamics, NCI Thesaurus)
While the individual simulations of the model differed on the timing, the research suggests that changes may be inevitable in large regions of the Southern Ocean, regardless of future mitigation efforts.
(Marine organisms in Southern Ocean will face shallower zone for life, National Science Foundation)
Their simulations show that as Enceladus orbits Saturn, rocks in the porous core flex and rub together, generating heat.
(Powering Saturn's Active Ocean Moon, NASA)
Analyzing the simulations, the research team found that Pinatubo's eruption caused the oceans to cool and sea levels to drop by about 6 millimeters.
(Volcanic eruption masked acceleration in sea level rise, NSF)
They fed into the simulation different rates of phosphine production and extrapolated what a given atmosphere's spectrum of light would look like given a certain rate of phosphine production.
(Poisonous Earthly Molecule May Be Sign of Extraterrestrial Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A team of scientists led by Ian Boutle at the University of Exeter have created successful simulations of two possible atmospheres of Proxima B, an exoplanet orbiting Proxima Centauri, one a simple atmosphere of nitrogen tinged with carbon dioxide and another an Earth-like mix of gases.
(Simulations show planet orbiting Proxima Centauri could have liquid water, Wikinews)
The next steps will include continuing to observe this object, making models and simulations on this ring, seeing how this ring may or may not evolve, trying to understand what it's made of and also the influence of Haumea's rotation, which is high, on the formation of this ring.
(Brazil astronomers discover ring around dwarf planet near Pluto, Agência Brasil)
