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emulator

[ em-yuh-ley-ter ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person or thing that imitates:
Until quite recently, emulators copied the behaviors of those higher in the social scale than themselves; nowadays, however, people in higher social classes are imitating those in lower ones.
Computers. hardware or software designed to imitate a different piece of hardware or a different software system, in order to do the same work or run the same programs:
These JavaScript emulators allow you to run newer programs on older, incompatible operating systems.

First recorded in 1580–90; from Latin aemulātor “imitator,” equivalent to aemul(us) “vying with” + -ator ( def )

I believe the latter lay at the center of another, even more fanatical emulator clique.

The climate is described by some emulator of Thomson to consist of "Tre mesi d'Inferno, nove d'inverno."

Of the same kind are the emotions which the death of an emulator or competitor produces.

According to Goethe, the ancients are "the despair of the emulator."

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