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simulations

noun

plural of simulation

as in miniatures

something that is made to look, feel, or behave like something else especially so that it can be studied or used to train people

—often + of a computer simulation of spaceflight simulations of body movements a simulation of the planet's surface

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Recent Examples of simulations Lockheed Martin is using high-fidelity simulations and digital engineering to accelerate development. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026 Indeed, such seeds emerged from these new simulations in environments of dense star clustering, which could solve this mystery by allowing those growth processes to get a head start. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 Nov. 2026 This new analysis—which takes into account simulations, historical weather patterns, star positions, and van Gogh’s letters from that year—shifts that date to just before dawn on July 22, 1889. — ArsTechnica, 2 Nov. 2026 Another proposes that dreams provide simulations in which brains can safely practice responses to potentially threatening situations. — New Atlas, 2 Nov. 2026 Reports also indicate that the university is exploring virtual training simulations for police officers. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2026 But the company warns that, as simulations run longer, details and object permanence can shift over time. — Jay Peters, The Verge, 27 Oct. 2026 Graphics and Gaming Tests We challenge all systems' graphics with a quintet of animations or gaming simulations from UL's 3DMark test suite. — Marshall Honorof, PC Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026

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Noun

Late-seventeenth-century chairs sit on Agra rugs as elaborately worked as Mughal miniatures.

— Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 8 Nov. 2026
Shimamura taught Yamazaki how to build miniatures and operate motion-control cameras, the cutting edge of special-effects technology at the time.

— Matt Alt, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of miniatures

Noun

After Williams was announced among the cast of the show, copies of Sandler’s original Yaga play disappeared from book shelves and the Amazon digital retailer.

— Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Nov. 2026
Mammalian vaults contain 78 copies of a major protein arranged into two symmetrical halves.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of copies

Noun

Black-and-white reproductions of historic expedition photos accent hallways and suites.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Oct. 2026
On the editorial side, this includes the licenses for reproductions in books like exhibition catalogs, scholarly tomes, and even the covers of novels, as well as publications, for news coverage and criticism for exhibitions as well as general use.

— Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of reproductions

Noun

To this day, there are white club kids in New York who are in the club talking in black-ccents and wearing imitations of black people’s hairstyles.

— Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
Bad imitations eventually reduced molecular gastronomy to a punch line about foam, fog, and something unfortunately known as meat glue.

— John Vorwald, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of imitations

Noun

The center is designed to develop and train humanoids specifically for public safety applications, with engineers using realistic environments and mock-ups to test the machines and collect training data.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
Thousands of spectators lined the Chicago River to watch floating mock-ups of Victorian houses become engulfed by flames — a la the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 — but the buildings failed to ignite.

— Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of mock-ups

Noun

In 2015, an attempt to replicate 100 studies published in leading psychology journals resulted in only 36% of replications achieving statistically significant results, compared with 97% in the original studies.

— Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2026
In the lead-up to the last presidential election, academics and tech observers were concerned about the increasing potency of deepfakes, believing that synthetic images and replications of political figures would sow chaos on and offline.

— Max Tani, semafor.com, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of replications

Noun

If the original creators get paid, there's much less reason to take issue with clones.

— Ruben Circelli, PC Magazine, 29 Oct. 2026
Since its earliest days, the video game industry has been built on developers creating clones of competing games, with varying levels of originality and varying levels of enforcement from game platforms.

— Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026

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