- imitation or enactment, as of something anticipated or in testing.
- the act or process of pretending; feigning.
- an assumption or imitation of a particular appearance or form; counterfeit; sham.
- a conscious attempt to feign some mental or physical disorder to escape punishment or to gain a desired objective.
- the representation of the behavior or characteristics of one system through the use of another system, especially a computer program designed for the purpose.
- the act or an instance of simulating
- the assumption of a false appearance or form
- a representation of a problem, situation, etc, in mathematical terms, esp using a computer
- the construction of a mathematical model for some process, situation, etc, in order to estimate its characteristics or solve problems about it probabilistically in terms of the model
- the conscious process of feigning illness in order to gain some particular end; malingering
