The Collaborative International Dictionary
Simulate \Sim"u*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Simulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Simulating.] To assume the mere appearance of, without the reality; to assume the signs or indications of, falsely; to counterfeit; to feign.
The Puritans, even in the depths of the dungeons to
which she had sent them, prayed, and with no simulated
fervor, that she might be kept from the dagger of the
assassin.
--Macaulay.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of simulate English)
Usage examples of "simulating".
It morphs from a translucent copy of Amber's own body into the outline of a human skeleton, elaborate bony extensions simulating an osteosarcoma of more-than-lethal proportions.
He was much more advisable to continue simulating that it cooperated with him and to deal with which all the possible one relaxed.
At least no longer it had necessity to continue simulating that it was of his side.
All that and happened more through the mind of Zack during the three seconds that remained there simulating in a form very little convincing which they were kissed.
Once the program simulating a TVC cellular automaton was started, the plan was that neither she nor Durham would intervene at all.
So the processor clusters in Tokyo or Dallas or Seoul were simulating a cellular automaton containing a lattice of bizarre immaterial computers .
A private citizen-not even an Autoverse junkie-was offering to pay her to carry out the most abstract piece of programming imaginable: not simulating a nonexistent world, but "preparing" a simulation that would never be performed.
In fact, it was something she did herself often enough, thinking about the best way to treat a patient's problem while eating lunch at the Hopkins doctors' cafeteria, her brain creating a picture as though in a Disney cartoon, simulating the problem and then trying out theoretical fixes.
The target was a German heavy battalion, simulating a night's laagering after a day on the offense.
Clark replied, simulating anger at the interruption of his quiet time of the day.
That one used a full Group-A army, with an armored division and two mechanized divisions as the assault force, and the other mech division simulating a dispersed defense force.
The game thus progressed beyond the point of merely simulating intermittent supply faults.
The child forks, numerous times, as Amber despairingly plays with probabilities, simulating upbringing outcomes.
Sirhan can feel her unease, the tenuous grasping of her ghosts as she searches for reason in an unreasonable world, simulating outcomes, living through bad dreams, and backtracking to adjust her responses accordingly.
The llth ACR was simulating a division attack on a newly arrived force one third its theoretical size.