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simulator

[ sim-yuh-ley-ter ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person or thing that simulates.
a machine for simulating certain environmental and other conditions for purposes of training or experimentation:
a flight simulator.

simulator

/ ˈsɪmjʊˌleɪtə /

any device or system that simulates specific conditions or the characteristics of a real process or machine for the purposes of research or operator training
space simulator
a person who simulates

First recorded in 1825–35, simulator is from the Latin word simulātor imitator, counterfeiter. See simulate, -tor

By 2011, Airbus was working on a program to replicate these conditions in a flight simulator for use in pilot training.

I have no qualifications as a pilot, but I have flown a 777 in a Boeing simulator and provoked a stick shake.

You go through the simulator, you pull the trigger, you shoot the bad guy.

He and his colleagues used a GPS satellite simulator and managed to send GPS signals for more than a mile.

The game's creator, Sid Meier, somehow packed a plausible simulator of human history into a three-megabyte file.

As a matter of fact she was not so much young and unsophisticated as an unconscious simulator of simplicity.

In short, she was an accomplished embustera, and she richly earned the designation in the accusation of a simulator of miracles.

For instance, if a simulator is asked his name, his answer will show no connection with the question.

Cujus rei libet simulator atque dissimulator—A finished pretender and dissembler.

It has been the policy of that antient and grey simulator, in all ages, to hide his horns and claws.

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