emulation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The endeavor or desire to equal or excel someone else in qualities or actions.

   a great figure who is worthy of respect and emulation

2. 2
   noun

   Jealous rivalry; envy; envious contention.

   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 […]

3. 3
   noun

   effort to equal or surpass another

4. 4
   noun

   (computer science) technique of one machine obtaining the same results as another

5. 5
   noun

   ambition to equal or excel

6. 6
   noun

   Execution of a program or other software designed for a different system, by simulating parts of the other system.

Etymology

From Middle French émulation, from Latin aemulātiō.