Simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time. Simulation or The Simulation may also refer to: Computer simulation, simulation (as above) via computers Simulation video game, a video game that is a computer simulation Simulation preorder, a relation between state transition systems in computer science Diving (association football) (also known as simulation), misconduct in association football Media Simulation (film), a 2017 Iranian drama film Simulation (journal), a computer science academic journal The Simulation, a 2019 album by American heavy metal band Born of Osiris "Simulation", song by Tkay Maidza from Tkay "Simulation", a house music song released in 2012 by Irish singer Róisín Murphy See also Simulator (disambiguation) Simulation hypothesis