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computer simulation, simulation
(computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program
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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
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Copernican system
(astronomy) Copernicus' astronomical model in which the Earth rotates around the sun
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Ptolemaic system
(astronomy) Ptolemy's model of the universe with the Earth at the center
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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
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string theory
(particle physics) a theory that postulates that subatomic particles are one-dimensional strings
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stochastic process
a statistical process involving a number of random variables depending on a variable parameter (which is usually time)
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Markoff process, Markov process
a simple stochastic process in which the distribution of future states depends only on the present state and not on how it arrived in the present state
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random walk
a stochastic process consisting of a sequence of changes each of whose characteristics (as magnitude or direction) is determined by chance
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stationary stochastic process
a stochastic process in which the distribution of the random variables is the same for any value of the variable parameter
