Simulates

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To recreate the features or behaviors of an entity
2. To produce a representation that functions similarly to the original subject
3. Acts to copy the look or operation of a real object or system

Etymology: The verb "simulate" comes from Latin "simulāre," meaning "make like, imitate, copy, represent, feign," and that Latin verb grew from "similis," meaning "like." So the core of the word is simply resemblance: to simulate something is to make it look like something else. English took the word in the 1650s, borrowing the Latin past participle "simulātus" directly. A few decades earlier, though, English already had an adjective, "simulat," in use from around 1425, which meant "feigned" or "similar." That older sense is the one Latin's own "feign" meaning carried, so the modern verb inherited a double edge: it can describe an honest copy, or a deliberate pretence.

Synonyms: imitates, replicates, mimics, emulates, reproduces

Antonyms: differs, contradicts, deviates