Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun computer_simulation

1 sense of computer simulation

Sense 1
simulation, 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")
       => technique -- (a practical method or art applied to some particular task)
       => model, theoretical account, framework -- (a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process; "the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems")