Model and Simulation

• (n.) Something intended to serve or that may serve, as a pattern of something to be made; a material representation or embodiment of an ideal; sometimes, a drawing; a plan; as, the clay model of a sculpture; the inventor's model of a machine.
• (n.) A person who poses as a pattern to an artist.
• (n.) Any copy or resemblance, more or less exact.
• (n.) That by which a thing is to be measured; standard.
• (n.) A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.
• (v.i.) To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms; as, to model in wax.
• (v.t.) To plan or form after a pattern; to form in model; to form a model or pattern for; to shape; to mold; to fashion; as, to model a house or a government; to model an edifice according to the plan delineated.
• (a.) Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern; as, a model house; a model husband.
• (n.) Anything which serves or may serve, as an example for imitation; as, a government formed on the model of the American constitution; a model of eloquence, virtue or behavior.

noun

• A hypothetical description of a complex entity or process.
  • usage: "the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems"
  • synonyms: theoretical account, framework
• A type of product.
  • usage: "his car was an old model"
• A person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor.
  • usage: "the president didn't have time to be a model so the artist worked from photos"
  • synonyms: poser
• Representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale.
  • synonyms: simulation
• Something to be imitated.
  • usage: "an exemplar of success"; "a model of clarity"; "he is the very model of a modern major general"
  • synonyms: exemplar, example, good example
• Someone worthy of imitation.
  • usage: "every child needs a role model"
  • synonyms: role model
• A representative form or pattern.
  • usage: "I profited from his example"
  • synonyms: example
• A woman who wears clothes to display fashions.
  • usage: "she was too fat to be a mannequin"
  • synonyms: mannequin, manikin, mannikin, manakin, fashion model
• The act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale.
  • synonyms: modelling, modeling

verb

• Plan or create according to a model or models.
  • synonyms: pattern
• Form in clay, wax, etc.
  • usage: "model a head with clay"
  • synonyms: mold, mould
• Assume a posture as for artistic purposes.
  • usage: "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
  • synonyms: pose, sit, posture
• Display (clothes) as a mannequin.
  • usage: "model the latest fashion"
• Create a representation or model of.
  • usage: "The pilots are trained in conditions simulating high-altitude flights"
  • synonyms: simulate
• Construct a model of.
  • usage: "model an airplane"
  • synonyms: mock up

adjective

• Worthy of imitation.
  • usage: "exemplary behavior"; "model citizens"
  • synonyms: exemplary

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noun

• The act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training. )
• Computer science. ( the technique of representing the real world by a computer program)
  • usage: "a simulation should imitate the internal processes and not merely the results of the thing being simulated"
  • synonyms: computer simulation
• Representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale.
  • synonyms: model
• The act of giving a false appearance.
  • usage: "his conformity was only pretending"
  • synonyms: pretense, pretence, pretending, feigning

(n.) The act of simulating or assuming an appearance which is feigned or not true; -- distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what is true.

Simulation is the use of a mathematical model to imitate a situation many times in order to estimate the likelihood of various possible outcomes. See: Monte Carlo simulation.