computer simulation

1. 1.

   (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program

   “a simulation should imitate the internal processes and not merely the results of the thing being simulated”

   Synonymssimulation

   Broadertechniquemodel

   computer science

Questions about computer simulation

What does computer simulation mean?

computer simulation means "(computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program".

What is another word for computer simulation?

Close synonyms include simulation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is computer simulation a common word?

computer simulation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.