What does Emulation mean?
Definitions for Emulation
ˌɛm yəˈleɪ ʃənem·u·la·tion
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Princeton's WordNet
emulationnoun
ambition to equal or excel
emulationnoun
(computer science) technique of one machine obtaining the same results as another
emulationnoun
effort to equal or surpass another
GCIDE
Emulationnoun
imitation (of an admired model) for the purpose of improving one's own qualities.
Emulationnoun
(Computers) the imitation of the actions of a computer system or component, especially a processor, by means of a computer program, with the goal of predicting the behavior and performance characteristics of that system without actually manufacturing it.
Wiktionary
emulationnoun
The endeavor or desire to equal or excel someone else in qualities or actions.
emulationnoun
Jealous rivalry; envy; envious contention.
emulationnoun
Running a program or other software designed for a different system.
Etymology: From the aemulationem, accusative singular form of aemulatio.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Emulationnoun
Etymology: æmulatio, Latin.
Mine emulation
Hath not that honour in’t it had; for where
I thought to crush him in an equal force,
True sword to sword, I’ll pitch at him some way,
Or wrath or craft may get him. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.There was neither envy nor emulation amongst them. 1 Mac.
Aristotle allows that some emulation may be good, and may be found in some good men; yet envy he utterly condemns, as wicked in itself, and only to be found in wicked minds. Thomas Sprat.
The apostle exhorts the Corinthians to an holy and general emulation of the charity of the Macedonians, in contributing freely to the relief of the poor saints at Jerusalem. South.
A noble emulation heats your breast,
And your own fame now robs you of your rest:
Good actions still must be maintain’d with good,
As bodies nourish’d with resembling food. Dryden.What madness rules in brainsick men!
When for so slight and frivolous a cause,
Such factious emulations shall arise. William Shakespeare, Henry VI.
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emulation
Emulation is the process by which one system imitates or replicates the functions of another system. This typically involves a computer program that enables a computer to behave like a different device, software, or system, often with the goal of running software or games that were originally intended for a different platform.
Webster Dictionary
Emulationnoun
the endeavor to equal or to excel another in qualities or actions; an assiduous striving to equal or excel another; rivalry
Emulationnoun
jea/ous rivalry; envy; envious contention
Etymology: [L. aemulatio: cf. F. mulation.]
Wikidata
Emulation
In emulation learning, subjects learn about parts of their environment and use this to achieve their own goals. Observational learning is based primarily on the work of Albert Bandura. First coined by child psychologist David Wood in 1988. In 1990 “emulation” was taken up by Michael Tomasello to explain the findings of an earlier study on ape social learning. The meaning of the term emulation has changed gradually since. Emulation is a form of observational learning, different from imitation, which focuses on the action's environmental results instead of a model's action. Simpler form of observational learning is expected to have profound implications for its capacity for cultural transmission. Emulation produces only fleeting fidelity compared with the opportunity to copy a conspecific, when considerable conformity is displayed even with a simple task. This was observed through a study, ghost-conditions, in chimpanzees and children.
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The numerical value of Emulation in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
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The numerical value of Emulation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of Emulation in a Sentence
His desire to share Jesus Christ with others is worthy of emulation.
But damn if so many are good enough. More than good enough. In the right browser, on a speedy machine, it almost feels perfect. The usual debates about the 'realness' of emulation come into play, but it works. a few more, I hope, will go towards games they've never heard of, with rules they have to suss out, and maybe more people will play some of these arcades in the coming months than the games ever saw in their 'real' lifetimes.
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.
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