emulation
/ɛmjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)n
/noun [mass noun]
1Effort to match or surpass a person or achievement, typically by imitation: their success is inspiring emulation from others a model worthy of emulation...
- Using the doll, he demonstrated how viewing aggression causes emulation of that behavior, rather than catharsis.
- But they can teach, and inspire, and encourage emulation.
- Further, it's not at all clear that the Western model of development deserves emulation.
1.1 Computing Reproduction of the function or action of a different computer, software system, etc. software emulation of complete systems [as modifier]: an additional server is accessed via emulation software...
- Why would I buy software today that is going to run in emulation mode in the future?
- You can assign keystrokes to buttons for games that don't support joypads natively, allowing keyboard or mouse emulation.
- NAS products are essentially disk arrays organized around a micro-kernel operating system that has been optimized for storage operations and network file system emulation.