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simulate +‎ -ant

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simulant (plural simulants)

  1. Something that simulates something else such as a gemstone.
    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.
    • 2012, Joshua Cohen, Four New Messages:
      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.
    • 2023 April 25, Dhananjay Khadilkar, “Why scientists are making fake Moon dust”, in BBC[1]:
      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.

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Adjective edit

simulant (not comparable)

  1. (chiefly biology) Simulating, replacing, or having the form or appearance of something else.

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simulant

  1. gerund of simular

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simulant m anim

  1. malingerer

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Participle edit

simulant

  1. present participle of simuler

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Verb edit

simulant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of simulō

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Borrowed from Latin simulant

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simulant c

  1. person simulating
  2. (military) person faking illness

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Declension of simulant 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative simulant simulanten simulanter simulanterna
Genitive simulants simulantens simulanters simulanternas

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