"digital twin" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: digital twins [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} digital twin (plural digital twins)
  1. (especially manufacturing, simulators, gaming) A digital model of an intended or existing real-world physical product, system, or process (a physical twin); it serves as the effectively indistinguishable digital counterpart of it for practical purposes, such as simulation, computer-aided manufacturing, testing, monitoring, and maintenance. Tags: especially Related terms: CAD/CAM, replica, simulacrum, solid model Coordinate_terms: physical twin Translations (digital model): 數字孿生 /数字孪生 (shùzì luánshēng) (Chinese Mandarin), digitale tweeling [masculine] (Dutch), digitaalinen kaksonen (Finnish), цифровий двійник (cyfrovyj dvijnyk) [masculine] (Ukrainian), soqcih songseng (Zhuang), soqcih suengseng (Zhuang), soqcih lwgva (Zhuang)

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