simulation

Meanings

• 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)
• (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program
  • "a simulation should imitate the internal processes and not merely the results of the thing being simulated"
• representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale)
• the act of giving a false appearance

Synonyms

computer simulation, feigning, model, pretence, pretending, pretense