Synonyms:
simulation
Meaning: 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)
Usage examples
As if there were no way of discovery, but by simulation.
And the third, simulation, in the affirmative; when a man industriously and expressly feigns and pretends to be, that he is not.
But for the third degree, which is simulation, and false profession; that I hold more culpable, and less politic; except it be in great and rare matters.
A premium is put on physical quietude; on silence, on rigid uniformity of posture and movement; upon a machine-like simulation of the attitudes of intelligent interest.
The first, that simulation and dissimulation commonly carry with them a show of fearfulness, which in any business, doth spoil the feathers, of round flying up to the mark.