emulate

1 strive to equal or match, especially by imitating; "He is emulating the skating skills of his older sister"

2 imitate the function of (another system), as by modifying the hardware or the software

3 compete with successfully; approach or reach equality with; "This artists's drawings cannot emulate his water colors"

English

Verb

1. To copy or imitate, especially a person
2. (computing) of a program or device to imitate another program or device

Related terms

• emulation
• emulator

Translations

• French: émuler, imiter, copier, simuler
• German: emulieren (computing), nachahmen (person)
• Indonesian: meniru, menirukan, membeo, memimik
• Turkish: taklit etmek, öykünmek, kopya etmek
• Bulgarian: imitiram, kopiram

See also

• mimic
• copy
• imitate
• simulate

Italian

Verb

emulate

1. Form of Second-person plural present tense, emulare
2. Form of Second-person plural imperative, emulare#Italian|emulare

• The list of computer system emulators
• Computer simulation is the larger field of modeling real-world phenomenon (e.g. physics and economy) using computers.
• For rewriting a computer program into a different programming language, see Porting.
• Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)
• Other uses of the term "emulator" in the field of computer science:
  • Console emulator
  • Server emulator
  • Terminal emulator
• Translation:
  • Binary translation

• Antenna emulator
• In-circuit emulator (ICE)
• Virtual machine
• MAME
• data migration
• backward compatibility
• forward compatibility

References

• Seeing Double: Emulation in Theory and Practice

External links

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