simulate
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- v reproduce someone's behavior or looks
- v create a representation or model of
- v make a pretence of
- Because computers don't have enough horsepower yet to simulate, say, every flake of snow in a drift, academics like O'Brien attempt to figure out how much we need to see to believe .
- Built by IBM for Los Alamos National Laboratory, Roadrunner will be used primarily to simulate the effects of aging on nuclear weapons.
- At Michigan, he participated in the scientific community's debate on how to simulate the detection of oil reservoirs using a supercomputer.