simulate

To model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of.

Adjective

  1. Feigned; pretended.
    • under simulate religion - 1545, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches:

Origin

First attested in c. 1425, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English symulat(e), simulat(e), similat(e) (“feigned; similar”), borrowed from Latin simulātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

Forms

more simulate most simulate

Verb

  1. To model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of.
    • We will use a smoke machine to simulate the fog you will actually encounter.
    • This video game simulates a pinball machine.

Origin

First attested in 1652; Borrowed from Latin simulātus, perfect passive participle of simulō (“make like, imitate, copy, represent, feign”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from similis (“like”). See similar.

Forms

simulates simulating simulated

Related

simulator emulate

Derived

microsimulate resimulate simulant simulatability simulatable simulation simulative simulatively