emulation C2 Topic:People & Society US /ˌɛm.juˈleɪ̯.ʃən/ UK /ˌɛm.jʊˈleɪ̯.ʃən/ See IPA manual Freq #100570 Meanings 1 noun The effort to match or do as well as someone you admire. His hard work was held up as a model worthy of emulation. 2 noun The act of making one computer system imitate another. The game runs on a modern PC through emulation of the old console. Thesaurus Word family Forms emulations Related forms emulateemulativeemulator Appears in Phrases (1) See all terminal emulation software behavior that makes a computer act like a particular terminal Noun + noun Etymology AI details From Middle French émulation, from Latin aemulātiō. émulation Middle French aemulātiō Latin View etymology graph -> Topics People & Society Word Formation & Derivatives External links Google Images Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary # emulation **Type:** Word **Level:** C2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˌɛm.juˈleɪ̯.ʃən/ **IPA (UK):** /ˌɛm.jʊˈleɪ̯.ʃən/ **Frequency rank:** 100570 ## Meanings 1. The effort to match or do as well as someone you admire. 2. The act of making one computer system imitate another. ## Examples - His hard work was held up as a model worthy of emulation. - The game runs on a modern PC through emulation of the old console. ## Related Forms - emulate - emulative - emulator ## Roots and Affixes - Root: émulation - Root: aemulātiō ## Etymology From Middle French émulation, from Latin aemulātiō. ## AI Etymology Emulation is from Middle French émulation, from Latin aemulātiō. Important recorded forms include émulation (Middle French) and aemulātiō (Latin). Current senses include the effort to match or do as well as someone you admire and the act of making one computer system imitate another. The wider family includes related words such as emulate, emulative, and emulator. ## Topics - People & Society - Word Formation & Derivatives markdown