Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Serving to deceive; characterized by simulation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Simulated, or capable of being simulated.

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  • adjective simulated, or capable of being simulated

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Examples

  • As simulations proliferate, they come to refer only to themselves: a carnival of mirrors reflecting images projected from other mirrors onto the omnipresent television and computer screen and the screen of consciousness, which in turn refers the image to its previous storehouse of images also produced by simulatory mirrors.

    Jean Baudrillard Kellner, Douglas 2007

  • When examined from an architectural point of view, this set of simulatory rules may or may not reside on a remote server; it might be a consensus set of data and interactions distributed across a P2P network.

    Ce n'est pas un monde virtuel 2005

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