If you simulate an action or a feeling, you pretend that you are doing it or feeling it. They rolled about on the Gilligan Road, simulating a bloodthirsty fight He performed a simulated striptease
To represent certain features of the behavior of a physical or abstract system by the behavior of another system Note 1: For example, delay lines may be used to simulate propagation delay and phase shift caused by an actual transmission line Note 2: A simulator may imitate only a few of the operations and functions of the unit it simulates Contrast with emulate
If you simulate a set of conditions, you create them artificially, for example in order to conduct an experiment. The scientist developed one model to simulate a full year of the globe's climate Cars are tested to see how much damage they suffer in simulated crashes