SIMULATIONS Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

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 The company is using computer simulations and a new engineering approach that allows design, manufacturing and engineering teams to work simultaneously rather than completing their tasks one after another. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 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 That frees up human operators to focus on big-picture decisions, such as monitoring weather forecasts, running flight simulations for possible paths, and then chaining together a series of navigational waypoints for the smoothest possible journey. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026

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Noun

Access to materials such as Tough 1500 V2 already expands its usefulness beyond miniatures and decorative prints, opening up functional projects without requiring a professional system.

— Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026
Launched earlier this year by Stanford engineering graduate and former venture capitalist Madilyn Ontiveros Plumlee, Vero Studio specializes in the niche art form of bridal miniatures.

— Ari Stark, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of miniatures

Noun

Smith also explained what would happen if a legal challenge ultimately failed, including continuity arrangements with European partners and backup copies of Microsoft’s code held in Switzerland.

— Margot Edelman, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Lizzo gave away copies of her book to students in kindergarten through third grade at the school.

— Leondra Head, CBS News, 22 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

Rights, approvals and protections for digital replicas, voice, likeness and content now have to be addressed up front, not as an afterthought.

— Claudia Rosenbaum, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2026
In honor of the nation’s 250th anniversary, researchers at Penn State University have modeled its acoustic properties, drawing on data collected from one of the bell’s replicas.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of replicas

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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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