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noun

simulation

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)

In a sentence

Six example sentences with simulation, each labelled with its topic.

  • Before the first transplant, the surgeons ran a full simulation on a printed model of the child's chest.

    Medicine

  • A racing simulation with force feedback taught him to brake later at Eau Rouge than any arcade cabinet ever did.

    Gaming

  • The flood simulation flowed water across a scale model of the delta, and three villages vanished under the paper contours.

    Environment

  • The pension fund ran a simulation of ten thousand possible markets to see how often the money ran out before age ninety.

    Finance

  • A wind simulation showed the tower would funnel gusts onto the plaza, so the architects added a canopy.

    Architecture

  • New managers spend a day in a simulation, handling a fake product recall while actors play furious customers.

    Business

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