From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Simulation \Sim'u*la"tion\, noun [F. simulation, L. simulatio.] The act of simulating, or assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true; -- distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what is true.
Syn: Counterfeiting; feint; pretense.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: (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" [syn: {computer simulation}]
2: 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)
3: representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale) [syn: {model}]
4: the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending" [syn: {pretense}, {pretence}, {pretending}, {feigning}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "simulation": accordance, acting, adoption, affectation, agreement, alikeness, alliance, analogy, aping, appearance, approach, appropriation, approximation, assimilation, assumption, attitudinizing, bluff, bluffing, borrowed plumes, cheating, closeness, color, coloring, community, comparability, comparison, conformity, copying, correspondence, counterfeiting, deception, delusion, derivation, deriving, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, emulation, facade, face, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity, feigning, feint, following, forgery, four-flushing, fraud, front, gilt, gloss, hit-off, humbug, humbuggery, identity, imitation, impersonation, imposture, impression, infringement, likeness, likening, masquerade, meretriciousness, metaphor, mimesis, mimicking, mirroring, mocking, nearness, onomatopoeia, ostentation, outward show, parallelism, parity, parody, pasticcio, pastiche, pirating, plagiarism, plagiary, playacting, pose, posing, posture, pretense, pretension, pretext, repetition, representation, resemblance, sameness, seeming, semblance, sham, show, similarity, simile, similitude, simulacrum, speciousness, takeoff, taking, varnish, window dressing
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
simulation Attempting to predict aspects of the behaviour of some system by creating an approximate (mathematical) model of it. This can be done by physical modelling, by writing a special-purpose computer program or using a more general simulation package, probably still aimed at a particular kind of simulation (e.g. structural engineering, fluid flow). Typical examples are aircraft flight simlators or electronic circuit simulators. A great many simulation languages exist, e.g. {Simula}. See also {emulation}, {Markov chain}. {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:comp.simulation}. (1995-02-23)
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