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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 But the company warns that, as simulations run longer, details and object permanence can shift over time. — Jay Peters, The Verge, 27 Oct. 2026 Genie 4 can apparently do a better job with elements like aerodynamics and collisions, which makes the simulations more useful and visually appealing. — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 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 Support also covered crane placement, installation feasibility studies and dismantling simulations. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026 The locations of the shadows in those simulations largely aligned with the locations of shadows in The Post’s analysis. — Dan Diamond, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026 The researchers ran 100,000 simulations using different revenue and discount-rate assumptions, and 85% produced a net loss for the state. — Bilin Lin, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026 In fact, numerical simulations of Schrödinger’s equation have recently shown that with each additional particle, decoherence becomes roughly twice as strong. — Philipp Strasberg, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

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Noun

The collection includes oil paintings, watercolors and miniatures by artists who lived and worked in India during the 18th and 19th centuries.

— Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 26 Oct. 2026
The works were given without any tax incentives and include oil paintings, watercolors, and miniatures by artists who resided in South Asia during the 18th and 19th centuries.

— News Desk, Artforum, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of miniatures

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His breakout comedic dark fantasy comic series Barbaric has sold more than one million copies and is currently in development as a series at Netflix.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2026
When a server migration wipes out Sally’s treasured videos of him — and her phone containing backup copies accidentally shatters — the only hope is finding the original tapes.

— Rachel LaBonte, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of copies

Noun

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
But De Kooning would apply fragments of the reproductions to new compositions, often in different orientations.

— Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 16 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

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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 this way, the replicas are imbued with the modern events tied to their materials.

— Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026
Fielder has made a career out of constructing elaborate social experiments, like building exact replicas of people’s homes and hiring actors to impersonate their loved ones on The Rehearsal.

— Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of replicas

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

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
In other words, the researchers were able to produce both male and female clones from the same donor male.

— Gennaro Tomma, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2026

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