simulate
pronunciation
How to pronounce simulate in British English:
UK [ˈsɪmjuleɪt]
How to pronounce simulate in American English:
US [ˈsɪmjuleɪt]
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- Verb:
- reproduce someone's behavior or looks
- create a representation or model of
- make a pretence of
Word Origin
- simulate
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- simulate (v.)
- 1620s, "feign, pretend, assume falsely" (implied in simulated), back-formation from simulation or else from Latin simulatus, past participle of simulare "to make like, imitate, copy." Meaning "to use a model to imitate certain conditions for purposes of study or training" is from 1947. Related: Simulating.
Example
- 1. The most popular android apps were those that simulate smoking .
- 2. Several industrial and academic projects aim to simulate human thinking .
- 3. Lawyers had been found to say it was ok to simulate suffocation .
- 4. In october , leaf-shaped confetti shoots out of lamp posts in the village center to simulate colorful falling foliage .
- 5. To simulate a single neuron takes the computing power equivalent of a laptop .