simulate

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English symulat (“feigned, similar”), from Latin simulātus, past participle of simulō (“make like, imitate, copy, represent, feign”), from similis (“like”). See similar.

Pronunciation

• (verb)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪm.jʊˌleɪt/

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  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪm.jəˌleɪt/
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪm.jʊˌlæɪt/
• (adjective)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪm.jʊ.lɪt/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪm.jə.lət/

Verb

simulate (third-person singular simple present simulates, present participle simulating, simple past and past participle simulated)

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.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:imitate

Derived terms

• simulative
• simulatively

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sem- (0 c, 81 e)

• simulator

Translations

to model, replicate, duplicate the behavior

Albanian: shtirem (sq) Bulgarian: симулирам (bg) (simuliram) Catalan: simular (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 模拟 (zh) (mónǐ) Czech: simulovat (cs) Danish: simulere Esperanto: simuli Eton (Cameroon): bád Finnish: simuloida (fi) French: simuler (fr), (please verify) imiter (fr) German: simulieren (de), nachahmen (de) Hungarian: szimulál (hu) Indonesian: menirukan, mensimulasikan Japanese: シミュレートする (shimyurēto-suru) Latin: simulo, similo, simis sum, accedo (la) Luganda: okopa Malay: mensimulasikan Maori: whakatau Polish: symulować (pl) Portuguese: simular (pt) Romanian: simula (ro) Russian: симули́ровать (ru) (simulírovatʹ) Serbo-Croatian: simulirati (sh) Spanish: simular (es) Swedish: simulera (sv) Turkish: simule etmek, benzetmek Ukrainian: симулюва́ти impf or pf (symuljuváty)

See also

• emulate

Adjective

simulate (comparative more simulate, superlative most simulate)

1. (obsolete) Feigned; pretended.
   • 1545, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches:

     under simulate religion

Further reading

• “simulate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “simulate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• sultiame

Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

simulate

1. feminine plural of simulato

Participle

simulate f pl

1. feminine plural of simulato

Etymology 2

Verb

simulate

1. inflection of simulare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Anagrams

• emulasti

Latin

Verb

simulāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of simulō

References

• “simulate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Spanish

Verb

simulate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of simular combined with te