Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Simulating (something else); appearing to be (what it is not); replacing (in position or in aspect): with of: used especially in biology: as, a scutum simulant of a scutellum; cheliceres simulant of chelæ; stamens simulant of petals, or conversely.
- noun One who or that which simulates something else.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something that
simulates something else such as, for example, agemstone .
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Examples
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Initial lots will weigh just tens of pounds to ensure that the simulant is made correctly.
Boing Boing 2006
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"I've been through all the major airports and the security systems of the State Department, the Pentagon, even the CIA, and nobody has stopped me," Mr. Patrick said, noting that if his simulant had been real anthrax, it could "take care of the Rayburn building and all the people in it."
William C. Patrick III, 84, dies; oversaw Fort Detrick biowarfare effort and weaponization of anthrax and other deadly diseases T. Rees Shapiro 2010
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In a 1999 appearance before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, he pulled out a small plastic bottle filled with 7.5 grams of an inert anthrax simulant.
William C. Patrick III, 84, dies; oversaw Fort Detrick biowarfare effort and weaponization of anthrax and other deadly diseases T. Rees Shapiro 2010
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These photos (below) show the motor (full of star shape propellant simulant) that they are going to destroy.
More History To Be Destroyed in Huntsville - NASA Watch 2007
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These photos (below) show the motor (full of star shape propellant simulant) that they are going to destroy.
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The episodes still look great and pack a vast amount of content into their 30 minutes, and there are some nice nods towards continuity: the Inquisitor is referenced as a simulant, a similar type of robot to the one that appeared in Justice, whilst the triplicator was adapted from Meltdown's matter paddle.
Red Dwarf V Adam Whitehead 2009
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It's huge, massive, perhaps so gargantuan that illegal migrant workers might go undetected among the wild thickets of cucumbers and peppers, lost in the din of pneumatic harvesters, sonorous simulant thunderstorms and the reverberated rustlings of tomato leaves.
Thanet Earth and the Crystal Palaces of the Coming Salad Crisis Era 2009
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(Two Apollo astronauts investigating one of the simulant craters.) (An aerial view of Cinder Lakes Crater Field #1.)
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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It's huge, massive, perhaps so gargantuan that illegal migrant workers might go undetected among the wild thickets of cucumbers and peppers, lost in the din of pneumatic harvesters, sonorous simulant thunderstorms and the reverberated rustlings of tomato leaves.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Systems will perform in a square sandbox filled with compressed lunar regolith simulant.
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