Meaning | A hypothetical description of a complex entity or process. |
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Synonyms | model, framework |
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Narrower | Copernican system | (astronomy) Copernicus' astronomical model in which the Earth rotates around the sun |
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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 |
Ptolemaic system | (astronomy) Ptolemy's model of the universe with the Earth at the center |
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 |
simulation, computer simulation | (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program |
stochastic process | A statistical process involving a number of random variables depending on a variable parameter (which is usually time) |
string theory | (particle physics) a theory that postulates that subatomic particles are one-dimensional strings |
Broader | hypothesis, possibility, theory | A tentative insight into the natural world |
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Spanish | marco, marco teórico, modelo |
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Catalan | marc, marc teòric, model |
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