simulator
a person or thing that simulates.
a machine for simulating certain environmental and other conditions for purposes of training or experimentation: a flight simulator.
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Flight simulators and other more “sit down, strap in” kinds of gaming experiences might be more your gaming speed.
This is the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory solar simulator, a tool that can shine with the intensity of 20 Suns.
A solar-powered rocket might be our ticket to interstellar space | WIRED | November 21, 2020 | Ars TechnicaIn the simulator, you can test the model against all kinds of extremely unlikely scenarios—including ones that have never occurred in history.
Today, it makes everything from home security cameras to Bluetooth speakers to high-end racing simulator wheels.
Working From Home Was a Big Shift Even for the Companies Making the Gear We're Using to Work From Home | Patrick Lucas Austin | August 24, 2020 | TimeAll of her simulators are available through Sheehan Medical, of which she is the founder and president.
Training clinicians to spot heart failure in covid-19 patients | Tate Ryan-Mosley | August 19, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
By 2011, Airbus was working on a program to replicate these conditions in a flight simulator for use in pilot training.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly? | Clive Irving | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTI have no qualifications as a pilot, but I have flown a 777 in a Boeing simulator and provoked a stick shake.
You go through the simulator, you pull the trigger, you shoot the bad guy.
He and his colleagues used a GPS satellite simulator and managed to send GPS signals for more than a mile.
Aerial Drones May Be Vulnerable to Sabotage Because of GPS | Tara McKelvey | December 17, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTThe game's creator, Sid Meier, somehow packed a plausible simulator of human history into a three-megabyte file.
As a matter of fact she was not so much young and unsophisticated as an unconscious simulator of simplicity.
The "Genius" | Theodore DreiserIn short, she was an accomplished embustera, and she richly earned the designation in the accusation of a simulator of miracles.
A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 4 | Henry Charles LeaFor instance, if a simulator is asked his name, his answer will show no connection with the question.
Criminal Man | Gina Lombroso-FerreroCujus rei libet simulator atque dissimulator—A finished pretender and dissembler.
It has been the policy of that antient and grey simulator, in all ages, to hide his horns and claws.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb | Charles Lamb
British Dictionary definitions for simulator
/ (ˈsɪmjʊˌleɪtə) /
any device or system that simulates specific conditions or the characteristics of a real process or machine for the purposes of research or operator training: space simulator
a person who simulates
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