"simulated" is a correct and usable word in written English.
The word "simulated" is an adjective that is used to describe something that has been created or produced in an artificial and imitation way, such as in a laboratory or computer program. For example, "The researchers used a simulated environment to study the effects of climate change."
A November report by a British thinktank noted a rise in close military encounters between Russia and the west this year, including "violations of national airspace, emergency scrambles, narrowly avoided mid-air collisions, close encounters at sea, simulated attack runs and other dangerous actions happening on a regular basis over a very wide geographical area".
In a post published on Tuesday, Dixon explained how Improbable's technology works: "Developers who use Improbable can write code as if it will run on only one machine... Improbable automatically distributes their code across hundreds or even thousands of machines, which then work together to create a seamlessly integrated, simulated world".
The substitutions made in the Oxford Junior Dictionary – the outdoor and the natural being displaced by the indoor and the virtual – are a small but significant symptom of the simulated screen life many of us live.
Developing good study habits (regular amounts and avoiding cramming), and understanding the exam format and marking scheme can all help to reduce anxiety, as can practising under simulated test conditions.
Announcing the investment, Improbable's blog said its mission was to help games developers by "making it financially viable and easy to build simulated worlds".
And facing that fear internally, conquering your own fear and actually putting yourself in harm's way: not in a simulated way like a rollercoaster or a horror movie, where you feel fear but it's simulated fear.
That may explain why a major exercise staged in 2013 went without a simulated nuclear attack.
In financial services, where a problem at one company could easily trigger a system-wide crisis, regulators are urging banks and other firms to consider resilience across markets.A war game run last July by America's securities industry, Quantum Dawn 2, simulated a widespread attack by hackers intent on stealing large amounts of money and disrupting the stockmarket.
The computing power then available limited the size of the networks that could be simulated, and this limited the technology's scope.In the past few years, however, the remarkable number-crunching power of chips developed for the demanding job of drawing video-game graphics has revived interest.
In 2011 a group of Swiss engineers installed a tiny turbine inside a simulated artery which was propelled by a bloodlike fluid flowing through it.
These are subjected to simulated use by a second program.
