All 50 Uses of
simulate
in
Ender's Game
- Years, to develop the new battlerooms and run the simulations.†
Chpt 8
- Then run the simulations and see which ones are hardest, which easiest.†
Chpt 8
- We did computer simulations on probable results.†
Chpt 11
- We've devoted one of the five simulators to his exclusive use.†
Chpt 14
- The other simulators?†
Chpt 14
- And for pleasure, there was the simulator, the most perfect videogame he had ever played.†
Chpt 14
- He spoke commands to simulated pilots of four fighters, and instead of merely carrying out the computer's instructions, he was allowed to determine tactics himself, deciding which of several objectives was the most valuable and directing his squadron accordingly.†
Chpt 14
- By the time he had been at Command School for a year, he was adept at running the simulator at any of fifteen levels, from controlling an individual fighter to commanding a fleet.†
Chpt 14
- He had long since realized that as the battleroom was to Battle School, so the simulator was to Command School.†
Chpt 14
- The watchers would stay, silently, watching him run through a difficult simulation, and then leave just as he finished.†
Chpt 14
- He found that a great deal of what he learned at Battle School transferred to the simulator.†
Chpt 14
- He would routinely reorient the simulator every few minutes, rotating it so that he didn't get trapped into an up-down orientation, constantly reviewing his position from the enemy point of view.†
Chpt 14
- At the end of his first year he was winning every battle on the simulator, and played the game as if the machine were a natural part of his body.†
Chpt 14
- One day, eating a meal with Graff, he asked, "Is that all the simulator does?"†
Chpt 14
- All the rest with the simulator.†
Chpt 14
- The old man rarely spoke, but he was there; at meals, at tutorials, at the simulator, in his room at night.†
Chpt 14
- They had changed the simulator.†
Chpt 14
- They're already in place in their own simulators.†
Chpt 14
- You'll learn who they are and how they think from the way they work with the simulator.†
Chpt 14
- They've been flogging us through the simulator for three months now," said Dink.†
Chpt 14
- They learned many ways of working together, as the simulator forced them to try different situations.†
Chpt 14
- Sometimes the simulator gave them a larger fleet to work with; Ender set them up then in three or four toons that consisted of three or four squadrons each.†
Chpt 14
- Sometimes the simulator gave them a single starship with its twelve fighters, and he chose three squadron leaders with four fighters each.†
Chpt 14
- The simulator would display the situation on the screen.†
Chpt 14
- We have programmed the computer to simulate the kinds of situations we might expect in encounters with the enemy.
Chpt 14 *simulate = imitate
- But instead of mindlessly following these same patterns, I will be controlling the enemy simulation.†
Chpt 14
- It was a very odd dream, and Ender couldn't easily shake loose of it, even as he walked through the tunnels to the simulator room.†
Chpt 14
- He got to the simulator and found his squadron leaders already on the wire, waiting for him.†
Chpt 14
- Then the simulator field went blank, the ships disappeared, and everything changed at once.†
Chpt 14
- At the near edge of the simulator field they could see the shapes, drawn in holographic light, of three starships from the human fleet.†
Chpt 14
- Ender selected one starship, made it blink in the simulator field, and spoke into the microphone.†
Chpt 14
- Ender grouped his reserves in two forces that shadowed Alai at a safe distance; Bean was already off the simulator, though Ender occasionally flipped to Bean's point of view to keep track of where he was.†
Chpt 14
- In this simulation they obviously don't know what our weapons can do.†
Chpt 14
- The simulation responded beautifully: first one or two, then a dozen, then most of the enemy ships exploded in dazzling light as the field leapt from ship to ship in the tight formation.†
Chpt 14
- This is a simulation of a real invasion.†
Chpt 14
- Simulated battles under Mazer's supervision came every two or three days, and as Mazer had promised, they were never so easy again.†
Chpt 14
- They told Ender that the ones who weren't actually playing would come into the simulator rooms and watch.†
Chpt 14
- As he drifted off to sleep each night, it was with thoughts of the simulator playing through his mind.†
Chpt 14
- "Most of what you see is computer simulations," Mazer said.†
Chpt 14
- Then he went to the simulator room for practice.†
Chpt 14
- There were other people in the simulator room.†
Chpt 14
- He walked to the simulator controls and sat down, ready to start.†
Chpt 14
- If you prefer not to have them in the room, we'll have them watch on another simulator.†
Chpt 14
- The simulator field cleared.†
Chpt 14
- The enemy outnumbered him a thousand to one, the simulator glowed green with them.†
Chpt 14
- They were grouped in a dozen different formations shifting positions, changing shapes, moving in seemingly random patterns through the simulator field.†
Chpt 14
- The planet was at the far edge of the field, and for all Ender knew there were just as many enemy ships beyond it, out of the simulator's range.†
Chpt 14
- Then the surface of the planet, which filled half the simulator field now, began to bubble; there was a gout of explosion, hurling debris out toward Ender's fighters.†
Chpt 14
- Ender's fighters were among the first to go: their perspective suddenly vanished, and now the simulator could only display the perspective of the starships waiting beyond the edges of the battle.†
Chpt 14
- Only at the very periphery of the simulator did the M.D. field weaken.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(simulate) make an imitation or representation of