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emulation

UK/ˌɛm.jʊˈleɪ̯.ʃən/US/ˌɛm.juˈleɪ̯.ʃən/
nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #15,019 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: emulations

Emulation is the copying of somebody admired in order to match them. Worthy of emulation.

It is copying with ambition rather than imitation, which is what makes it a compliment. In computing emulation means one machine pretending to be another.

Definitions of emulation

  1. 1nounemulationThe copying of somebody admired in order to match them.C2

    “His whole style was emulation of one writer he never met.”

emulation is a copying.

Where it comes from

Latin aemulatio comes from aemulus, rivalling.

  1. Latin

    aemulātiō

  2. Middle French

    émulation

  3. English, today

    emulation

From Middle French émulation, from Latin aemulātiō.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

emulation in the wild

  • Disk imaging is performed for a variety of purposes including digital forensics, cloud computing, system administration, backup, and emulation for digital preservation strategy.

    Disk image

  • Newer releases mitigated these problems, 2005 review of the MorphOS version noted only slow CPU emulation as a major issue.

    Basilisk II

  • QEMU supports the emulation of x86, ARM, PowerPC, RISC-V, and many others.

    QEMU

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.