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Noun
S: (n) model, theoretical account, framework (a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process) "the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems"
S: (n) simulation, computer simulation ((computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program) "a simulation should imitate the internal processes and not merely the results of the thing being simulated"
S: (n) mean sun (a theoretical sun that moves along the celestial equator at a constant speed and completes its annual course in the same amount of time the real sun takes at variable speeds)
S: (n) Copernican system ((astronomy) Copernicus' astronomical model in which the Earth rotates around the sun)
S: (n) Ptolemaic system ((astronomy) Ptolemy's model of the universe with the Earth at the center)
S: (n) M-theory ((particle physics) a theory that involves an eleven-dimensional universe in which the weak and strong forces and gravity are unified and to which all the string theories belong)
S: (n) string theory ((particle physics) a theory that postulates that subatomic particles are one-dimensional strings)
S: (n) stochastic process (a statistical process involving a number of random variables depending on a variable parameter (which is usually time))
S: (n) model (a type of product) "his car was an old model"
S: (n) model, poser (a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor) "the president didn't have time to be a model so the artist worked from photos"
S: (n) model, simulation (representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale))
S: (n) exemplar, example, model, good example (something to be imitated) "an exemplar of success"; "a model of clarity"; "he is the very model of a modern major general"
S: (n) model, role model (someone worthy of imitation) "every child needs a role model"
S: (n) model, example (a representative form or pattern) "I profited from his example"