The word "simulator" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe any device or program that creates a simulated environment or situation, typically for the purpose of training or testing. For example, "The new flight simulator was used to train new pilots."
However, the starting point for simulation, and also the default state, is one in which the simulator makes no adjustments.
There were eight PlayStation games available on day one, including two mahjong titles, a train simulator and the genuine killer app, a version of Namco's arcade driving sim Ridge Racer.
If I want to be wowed just by 3D effects, I'll go to a theme-park simulator game and watch monsters jump out at me and clowns fall off ladders.
Technical ability is tested on a simulator.
Mr Moussaoui is being held for carrying a false French passport, but what intrigues investigators is that he took flying lessons in Oklahoma, failed to win a licence to pilot small planes, but still insisted on buying time on a flight simulator for a passenger airliner.
PIXELearning, a British company based in Coventry, has developed a simulator for a big international accounting firm in order to train interns who are fresh out of university.
The role-playing simulator lets them develop their skills by interacting, for example, with a difficult client who is being aggressive on pricing.
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Microsoft's researchers in Cambridge are working with experimentalists at Caltech, the University of Washington and the University of Oxford on a programming language and simulator for strand-displacement circuits, called the DNA Strand Displacement (DSD) tool.
"Bill, Melinda and I were a bunch of product-development people," says Ms Stonesifer, who was responsible for software including Encarta and Flight Simulator while at Microsoft.
In that interval he turned his home into a simulator of the studio, down to the snack food offered in the "green room" (much to the consternation of his then girlfriend).
