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))
simulation, computer simulation -- ((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")
model, simulation -- (representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale))
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