simulant
/ˈsɪmjʊlənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.76 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Something that simulates something else such as a gemstone.
adj
Simulating, replacing, or having the form or appearance of something else.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
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.