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Verb
/ˈemyəˌlāt/,
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emulated, past participle; emulates, 3rd person singular present; emulating, present participle; emulated, past tense;
  1. Match or surpass (a person or achievement), typically by imitation
    • - lesser men trying to emulate his greatness
  2. Imitate
    • - hers is not a hairstyle I wish to emulate
  3. Reproduce the function or action of (a different computer or software system)

  1. strive to equal or match, especially by imitating; "He is emulating the skating skills of his older sister"
  2. imitate the function of (another system), as by modifying the hardware or the software
  3. compete with successfully; approach or reach equality with; "This artist's drawings cannot emulate his water colors"
  4. (emulation) ambition to equal or excel
  5. (emulation) (computer science) technique of one machine obtaining the same results as another
  6. An emulator in computer sciences duplicates (provides an emulation of) the functions of one system using a different system, so that the second system behaves like (and appears to be) the first system. ...
  7. (Emulation (observational learning)) In emulation learning, subjects learn about parts of their environment and use this to achieve their own goals. ...
  8. (Emulation (Schoelcher)) Emulation is a football club of Martinique, based in the westcoast-town Schœlcher.
  9. To attempt to equal or be the same as; To copy or imitate, especially a person; To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy; of a program or device to imitate another program or device
  10. (emulative) Having a tendency to emulate others; imitative
  11. (Emulation) An absolutely precise simulation of something, so exact that it is equivalent to the original (for example, many computers emulate obsolete computers to run their programs).
  12. (Emulation) Reproducing of software or device behavior using other software or hardware methods, or software and hardware combination methods. The main goal is an exact modeling of imitated system status and behavior. ...
  13. (emulation) Replication of a computing system to process programs and data from an early system that is no longer available.
  14. (Emulation) A digital record preservation approach that involves keeping digital records in their original format and recreating the operating environment to enable the original performance of the software to be recreated on current computers. ...
  15. (Emulation) A means of overcoming technological obsolescence of hardware and software by developing techniques for imitating obsolete systems on future generations of computers.
  16. (Emulation) A printer emulates another printer if it excepts the same commands and prints the same output.
  17. (Emulation) The art of enabling one machine to act as another through software. Perfect emulation would mean that computer could perform all of the hardware and software functions of the other, with no way to tell the difference between the two.
  18. (Emulation) The intelligence in a switch that emulate signals to allow a computer to think it is attached directly to a KVM. Also see boot.
  19. (Emulation) The use of special control programs to make a new computer system "act" like an older one, thus enabling a business to execute its older programs while software conversion takes place.
  20. (Emulation) This term refers to a program or device that has the ability to imitate another. A common example would be that many printer manufactures software emulate the Hewlett-Packard Laser Jet software because of the fact that so many of these printers exist. ...
  21. (Emulation) Using special software to create an artificial operating system on top of a different operating system. For example, Wine creates a virtual Microsoft Windows operating system on top of Linux. This means critical, Windows-only programs can still run under Linux. ...
  22. (Emulation) When a PostScript RIP or EPS export filter is written using code which impersonates PostScript, it is said to be emulated. It is generally cheaper to emulate PostScript than license the real thing from Adobe.
  23. (Emulation) is the replicating of functionality of an obsolete system.^[10] For example, emulating an Atari 2600 on a Windows system or emulating WordPerfect 1.0 on a Macintosh. Emulators may be built for applications, operating systems, or hardware platforms. ...
  24. (emulation) Copy, try to do as well as.
  25. (emulation) Proposes a layer of software that emulates a given hardware platform, and serves as the foundation on which to run the original software, the application used to create it and its operating system, thus giving a working solution for highest fidelity in reproducing the original state ...