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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈsɪmjʊˌleɪtə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈsɪmjəˌleɪtɚ/

名詞

simulator (plural simulators)

1. One who simulates or feigns.
   • 1858, Thomas De Quincey, “Schlosser's Literary History of the Eighteenth Century”, in De Quincey's works, page 82:

     Even confessing to a crime, the man may be mad, or a knavish simulator.

2. A machine or system that simulates an environment (such as an aircraft cockpit), often for training purposes.
   • 1947 February 21, “Instruments Are Released From Rocket By Parachute in a Jump of 68 Miles”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 9 April 2026:

     The dummy rocket is being developed to permit the ground testing of missile controls. By the use of this “flight simulator” the control devices of missiles can be subjected to operational tests on the ground, thus reducing the need for expensive flight tests.

   • 2007 February 20, Tina Kelley, “A Wet Wind Tunnel So Ships Can Move Faster and Better”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 18 December 2022:

     A wave simulator in the tank can re-enact tsunamis and northeasters, and imitate wave conditions from midocean.

   • 2020 March 11, “Network News: Driver training on Trafford Park line”, in Rail, page 15:

     Classroom sessions for drivers are under way, with each driver requiring a full day on the simulator before they then test a tram on the £350 million new line.

3. (video games) A game that attempts to reproduce an experience realistically.

   a pinball simulator

   • 2007, David Lester, How They Started:

     While writing for Mastertronic, David had seen that sales figures were much better for 'simulators' compared to less realistic games […]

派生語

関連する語

• simulation

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [sɪ.mʊˈɫaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [si.muˈlaː.tor]

名詞

simulātor m (genitive simulātōris); third declension

1. copier, imitator
2. hypocrite, pretender, phoney

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

動詞

simulātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of simulō

参照

• “simulator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “simulator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “simulator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.