emulation

• æmulation (archaic)

From Middle French émulation, from Latin aemulātiō.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɛm.jʊˈleɪ̯.ʃən/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɛm.juˈleɪ̯.ʃən/, /-ʃɪn/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən, -eɪʃɪn

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

   • 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Tribute to an Instructor, page 210:

     Allur'd, not forc'd, encourag'd, not compell'd;
     The shrinking eye look'd up, the soul was cheer'd,
     Felt as it learnt, confided e'er it fear'd;
     And first by emulation's ardour mov'd,
     Prest onward in the path which soon it lov'd.

2. (obsolete) Jealous rivalry; envy; envious contention.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

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

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