Noun
The act of simulating, or assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true; -- distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what is true.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it's a wonderful problem, because it doesn't look so easy. Richard Feynman
Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation. Nicholas Negroponte
In the Samoiedas literary school, the students get satisfied only with shallow literary appearances and a ordinary simulation of notoriety, sometimes because of their intellectual incapacity and some other times by a vicious and careless instruction. Lima Barreto
For it is with the same imperialism that present-day simulators try to make the real, all the real, coincide with their simulation models. Jean Baudrillard
Watergate was thus nothing but a lure held out by the system to catch its adversaries - a simulation of scandal for regenerative ends. Jean Baudrillard
Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or substance. It is a generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. Jean Baudrillard