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(noun) pretence, pretending, pretense, feigning
the act of giving a false appearance
his conformity was only pretending
(noun) model
representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale)
(noun) computer simulation
(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