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simulate
[sim-yuh-leyt, sim-yuh-lit, -leyt]
verb (used with object)
to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like).
to simulate crisis conditions.
to make a pretense of; feign.
to simulate knowledge.
Synonyms: counterfeit, pretendto assume or have the appearance or characteristics of.
He simulated the manners of the rich.
Synonyms: affect
adjective
Archaic., simulated.
simulate
verb
to make a pretence of; feign
to simulate anxiety
to reproduce the conditions of (a situation, etc), as in carrying out an experiment
to simulate weightlessness
to assume or have the appearance of; imitate
adjective
archaic, assumed or simulated
Other Word Forms
- simulative adjective
- simulatory adjective
- simulatively adverb
- nonsimulate adjective
- nonsimulative adjective
- unsimulated adjective
- unsimulating adjective
- unsimulative adjective
- well-simulated adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of simulate1
Example Sentences
Guided by a pilot, the unmanned craft swooped through the winter sky on the hunt to destroy its target: a simulated version of one of the attack drones Moscow regularly uses to terrorise Ukraine.
In a lab at the University of East Anglia in Norwich we watch as he simulates what a toilet flush does to a wipe.
However, simulating a galaxy accurately requires calculating gravity, fluid behavior, chemical element formation, and supernova activity across enormous ranges of time and space, which makes the task extremely demanding.
Japanese car plants run thousands of robots at 0.01% error rates because they simulate before deploying.
"Today, we must use computers to design an airplane, and the computational resources to design a plane that will fly at Mach 6, simulating all the tiny, fine, little details would be impossible," Parziale explains.
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