emulation
See also: émulation
English
Alternative forms
- æmulation (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle French émulation, from Latin aemulātiōnem, accusative singular form of aemulātiō.
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˌɛm.jʊˈleɪ̯.ʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GA" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˌɛm.juˈleɪ̯.ʃən/, /-ʃɪn/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən, -eɪʃɪn
Noun
emulation (countable and uncountable, plural emulations)
- The endeavor or desire to equal or excel someone else in qualities or actions.
- a great figure who is worthy of respect and emulation
- 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Tribute to an Instructor, page 210:
- Allur'd, not forc'd, encourag'd, not compell'd;
The shrinking eye look'd up, the soul was cheer'd,
Felt as it learnt, confided e'er it fear'd;
And first by emulation's ardour mov'd,
Prest onward in the path which soon it lov'd.
- (obsolete) Jealous rivalry; envy; envious contention.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, New York Review Books 2001, p.263:
- Scarce two gentlemen dwell together in the country […] , but there is emulation betwixt them and their servants, some quarrel or some grudge betwixt their wives or children […]
- (computing) Running a program or other software designed for a different system, by simulating parts of the other system.
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Translations
endeavour or desire to equal or excel
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jealous rivalry
software
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