Crossword clues for simulator
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Simulator \Sim"u*la`tor\, n. [L.] One who simulates, or feigns. -- De Quincey.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1835, of persons, from Latin simulator "a copier, feigner," agent noun from simulare "imitate," from stem of similis "like" (see similar). In reference to training devices for complex systems, from 1947 (flight simulator).
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who simulates or feigns. 2 A machine or system that simulates an environment (such as an aircraft cockpit), often for training purposes.
WordNet
n. a machine that simulates an environment for the purpose of training or research
Wikipedia
Simulator (disambiguation)
- A simulation system, process or device
- flight simulator, a working mockup of an aircraft cockpit, automated to give an approximation of the experience of flying the plane
- marine simulator, a working mockup of a nautical bridge or engine room, designed to give an approximation of the experience of piloting the vessel
- Simulation video game, any of a class of video games that aims to simulate something else, such as a billiards table, pinball machine, or (see above) aircraft flight controls
- Simulator (gastropod), a genus of freshwater snails in the family Planorbidae
Usage examples of "simulator".
He had been the highest scorer of all time on the Academy reconnect simulator and had successfully accomplished the maneuver on both the Yorktown and the Hood.
Khallad adds that the training involved using flight simulator com- puter games, viewing movies that featured hijackings, and reading flight schedules to determine which flights would be in the air at the same time in different parts of the world.
The latter were carried out mostly in the actual ships that would be used in the attack, but with control helmets connected in simulator mode.
Their hijinks in the simulator were too many to catalog and both young men were certain that some Air Force colonel had lodged a complaint-again.
The pouring smoke and teargas, pops and bangs from simulators and blanks and the natural disorientation on top of psychoacoustic blasts was all the score we needed.
He felt that he had a lot in common with the kid flying an F-18, which was why he took it especially hard when he read about the uptick in accidents, and worse, how all those high-trained men and women were suddenly making goofs while sitting inside their flight simulators.
For this, too, Robbie envisioned mechanical aid, a computer controlled voice simulator that could be operated so long as Rainey had any voluntary movement remaining, even flexing her brow.
The simulator chief, Dracula, instructed his clever photographers and lighting experts to make television shots of the area as the astronauts would see it from their spacecraft, and these he fitted into he cameras of his landing simulators, encouraging the men to fly mission after mission into this arid rocky area.
Kirk noticed, though, that she appeared as self-possessed and collected now as when she had entered the simulator, unlike most of the other trainees, who came out sweating and unkempt.
Every day they played out, on the simulators, different variants of the approach to Quinta as well as the tactics of establishing contact with its inhabitants.
The simulator has facilities appropriate for handling biohazardous equipment.
Since the one thing the Czechs did not seem to have was a good simulator for the craft they were going to be taking their first "familiarization" flights tomorrow.
Seventeen cycles after this—when the scoring simulators indicated all surface batteries were indeed silenced—the main landing force deorbited and went about rehearsing its business of destruction.
She drove them through the simulator session mercilessly, demanding that they go through the entire simulation of disconnecting from the station and entering the Jovian atmosphere without a break.
Gately's cognomen growing up and moving through public grades had been Bim or Bimmy, or The Simulator, etc.