Other forms: simulated, simulating, simulates
To simulate is to imitate the working of something for study or practice. Simulate the conditions, a simulated attack, simulate a landing.
The point is to get the behaviour right rather than the appearance, which is what separates it from a model in the loose sense. Pilots simulate emergencies nobody would risk in the air, and almost all their training for them is done that way.
1verbsimulateTo imitate the working of something for study or practice.
“Engineers used a computer to simulate how the bridge would behave in a strong wind.”
simulate is an imitating.
Latin simulare means to make like or imitate, from similis, like. Dissimulate is its opposite.
Proto-Indo-European
*sem-
Latin
simulātus
English, today
simulate
Built from
1652; Latin simulātus, perfect passive participle of simulō (“make like, imitate, copy, represent, feign”) (see -ate), from similis (“like”). See similar.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA