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# simulation

«simulation» in Mova's school dictionary: **a copy of a real situation, made on a computer or with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a simulation, simulations; simulation, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A simulation is a copy of a real situation, made on a computer or with models, so that people can study it or practise safely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/simulation/#m1)

2) A simulation can also be a pretend version of something, like a fire drill or a flight simulator. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/simulation/#m2)

3) (formal) Simulation can mean pretending, putting on a false show: a simulation of interest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/simulation/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and computing lessons, pupils use simulations to see things that are too big, small, fast, slow or dangerous to test for real: planets moving, volcanoes, the spread of germs, circuits. Pilots train in flight simulators. In maths, a simulation can repeat a random event (like rolling a dice many times on a computer) to estimate a probability. Games like city builders are simulations too. Phrases: «computer simulation», «flight simulator», «run a simulation».

### examples

- We used a computer simulation to see how the planets orbit the Sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/simulation/#x1)
- Pilots practise emergencies in a flight simulator. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/simulation/#x2)
- The fire drill is a simulation of a real fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/simulation/#x3)
- The simulation rolled a dice a thousand times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/simulation/#x4)
- Scientists run simulations to predict the weather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/simulation/#x5)
- My brother plays a farming simulation game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/simulation/#x6)

### note

Verb: «simulate», adjective: «simulated». A simulation is only as good as its rules: it can be wrong if the model is wrong. Not the same as «stimulation» (exciting or waking something up).

### In the corpora

- [Your lessons are a simulation, and your learning in them is real learning.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/28-who-you-are-honest-ai/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «simulation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/simulation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.