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simulant en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈsɪmjʊlənt/

Etymology

Etymology tree English simulate Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Latin -āns Old French -antbor. Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ant English -ant English simulant From simulate + -ant.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Simulating, replacing, or having the form or appearance of something else.

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simulant en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈsɪmjʊlənt/

Etymology

Etymology tree English simulate Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Latin -āns Old French -antbor. Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ant English -ant English simulant From simulate + -ant.

Meanings

1. Something that simulates something else such as a gemstone.
   • He could invent a fictional restaurant for you to bite your burger at but any fictional restaurant would be, like Nomenex, a worthless simulant or inconcinne imitation, a placebic generic. 2012, Joshua Cohen, Four New Messages:
   • Due to its low cost and close visual likeness to diamond, cubic zirconia has remained the most gemologically and economically important diamond simulant since 1976.
   • The soil sample, called LZS-1, is the latest in a list of lunar regolith simulants of varying quality that have been developed to help Nasa and other space agencies around the world prepare for missions to the Moon. 2023 April 25, Dhananjay Khadilkar, “Why scientists are making fake Moon dust”, in BBC:

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