emulation
pronunciation
How to pronounce emulation in British English:
UK [ˌemjʊ'leɪʃn]
How to pronounce emulation in American English:
US [ˌɛmjəˈleʃən]
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- Noun:
- ambition to equal or excel
- (computer science) technique of one machine obtaining the same results as another
- effort to equal or surpass another
Word Origin
- emulation (n.)
- 1550s, from Middle French émulation (13c.) and directly from Latin aemulationem (nominative aemulatio) "rivalry, emulation, competition," noun of action from past participle stem of aemulari "to rival, strive to excel," from aemulus "striving, rivaling" (also as a noun, "a rival," fem. aemula), from Proto-Italic *aimo-, from PIE *aim-olo, suffixed form of root *aim- "copy" (see imitation).
Example
- 1. If something like whole brain emulation is possible you could take frozen brains of people , and make another version of that old brain .
- 2. A trade union shall organize workers to launch socialist labour emulation campaigns , develop mass rationalization proposals , technological reform and technological cooperation activities , improve work productivity rates and economic performances and develop society 's productive forces .
- 3. Others buy them as an act of social emulation .
- 4. In joining the society of strong and caring men -- and in learning how to be better men -- having a male worthy of respect and emulation is a wonderful and powerful thing in a boy 's life .
- 5. This arithmetic has very obvious practical significance , and also is an emulation of practical countermeasure process .