[im-i-tey-shuh
n] 
| 1. | a result or product of imitating. |
| 2. | the act of imitating. |
| 3. | a counterfeit; copy. |
| 4. | a literary composition that imitates the manner or subject of another author or work. |
| 5. | Biology. mimicry. |
| 6. | Psychology. the performance of an act whose stimulus is the observation of the act performed by another person. |
| 7. | Sociology. the copying of patterns of activity and thought of other groups or individuals. |
| 8. | Art.
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| 9. | Music. the repetition of a melodic phrase at a different pitch or key from the original or in a different voice part. |
[mod-l-ing] | 1. | the act, art, or profession of a person who models. |
| 2. | the process of producing sculptured form with some plastic material, as clay. |
| 3. | the technique of rendering the illusion of volume on a two-dimensional surface by shading. |
| 4. | the treatment of volume, as the turning of a form, in sculpture. |
| 5. | the representation, often mathematical, of a process, concept, or operation of a system, often implemented by a computer program. |
| 6. | Also called imitation. Psychology. therapy in which a particular behavior is elicited by the observation of similar behavior in others. |
| im·i·ta·tion (ĭm'ĭ-tā'shən) n.
im'i·ta'tion·al adj. |
modeling mod·el·ing (mŏd'l-ĭng)
n.
The acquisition of a new skill by observing and imitating that behavior being performed by another individual.
In behavior modification, a treatment procedure in which the therapist models the target behavior which the learner is to imitate.
A continuous process by which a bone is altered in size and shape during its growth by resorption and formation of bone at different sites and rates.
imitation
in psychology, the reproduction or performance of an act that is stimulated by the perception of a similar act by another animal or person. Essentially, it involves a model to which the attention and response of the imitator are directed
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