different between emulation vs emulate

English

Alternative forms

• æmulation (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle French émulation, from Latin aemul?ti?nem, accusative singular form of aemul?ti?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??m.j??le??.??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??m.ju?le??.??n/, /-??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n, -e???n

Noun

emulation (countable and uncountable, plural emulations)

1. 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. (obsolete) Jealous rivalry; envy; envious contention.
   • , 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 […]

3. (computing) Running a program or other software designed for a different system, by simulating parts of the other system.

Related terms

• emulate
• emulative
• emulator

Translations

Anagrams

• Manuelito, laumonite

English

Alternative forms

• æmulate (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin aemulor (“to rival, emulate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m.j?.le?t/
• Hyphenation: em?u?late

Verb

emulate (third-person singular simple present emulates, present participle emulating, simple past and past participle emulated)

1. (now rare) To attempt to equal or be the same as.
2. To copy or imitate, especially a person.
3. (obsolete) To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.
   • 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 146:

     But the councell then present emulating my successe, would not thinke it fit to spare me fortie men to be hazzarded in those unknowne regions [...].

4. (computing) of a program or device: to imitate another program or device

Related terms

• emulation
• emulator
• emulous

Translations

Adjective

emulate (comparative more emulate, superlative most emulate)

1. (obsolete) Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.

See also

• mimic
• copy
• imitate
• simulate

Anagrams

• metulae

Italian

Verb

emulate

1. second-person plural present indicative of emulare
2. second-person plural imperative of emulare
3. feminine plural of emulato