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 Dictionary entry overview: What does simulated mean? 

• SIMULATED (adjective)
  The adjective SIMULATED has 2 senses:

1. not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article

2. reproduced or made to resemble; imitative in character

  Familiarity information: SIMULATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIMULATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article

Synonyms:

fake; false; faux; imitation; simulated

Context example:

a purse of simulated alligator hide

Similar:

artificial; unreal (contrived by art rather than nature)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Reproduced or made to resemble; imitative in character

Context example:

under simulated combat conditions

Similar:

imitative (marked by or given to imitation)

 Context examples 

These neurons first compared the reward values of the partner’s choice options before signalling the partner’s likely choice, consistent with a simulated decision process.

(‘Mindreading’ neurons simulate decisions of social partners, University of Cambridge)

After shock-compression experiments on whitlockite samples that simulated the conditions of ejecting meteorites from Mars, the researchers studied their microscopic makeup with X-ray experiments.

(New Evidence for A Water-Rich History on Mars, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In a study carried out during a simulated mission to Mars, an international group of scientists has found exactly the opposite to be true.

(Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

To ensure a lot of planets weren't missed, the team introduced their own simulated planet transit signals into the data set and determined how many were correctly identified as planets.

(NASA Releases Kepler Survey Catalog with Hundreds of New Planet Candidates, NASA)

The model is then used to create a simulation of the interplanetary magnetic field surrounding these simulated stars.

(Even 'Goldilocks' exoplanets need a well-behaved star, National Science Foundation )

Issue associated with the inability of device and/or device components to generate a therapeutic simulated heart beat via electrical impulses once arrhythmia is detected.

(Failure to Pace or Properly Pace Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

To gain insight into this process, a team led by Dr. Jens Titze at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany took the opportunity to study men participating in a simulated space flight program.

(How the body regulates salt levels, NIH)

This type of flexing had been hypothesised before and simulated by computer models, but this is the first time the phenomenon has been measured in the field.

(Surface lakes cause Antarctic ice shelves to ‘flex’, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Surely that they have done her to death in some way which has deceived the doctor and simulated a natural end—poisoning, perhaps.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A plot of a cumulative dose-volume frequency distribution that graphically summarizes the simulated radiation distribution within a volume of interest of a patient which would result from a proposed radiation treatment plan.

(Dose Volume Histogram, NCI Thesaurus)