EMULATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emulation mean? 

• EMULATION (noun)
  The noun EMULATION has 3 senses:

1. ambition to equal or excel

2. (computer science) technique of one machine obtaining the same results as another

3. effort to equal or surpass another

  Familiarity information: EMULATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMULATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ambition to equal or excel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("emulation" is a kind of...):

ambition; aspiration; dream (a cherished desire)

Derivation:

emulate (compete with successfully; approach or reach equality with)

emulate (strive to equal or match, especially by imitating)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(computer science) technique of one machine obtaining the same results as another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("emulation" is a kind of...):

technique (a practical method or art applied to some particular task)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "emulation"):

terminal emulation ((computer science) having a computer act exactly like a terminal)

Derivation:

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

Effort to equal or surpass another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("emulation" is a kind of...):

imitation (copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else)

Derivation:

emulate (compete with successfully; approach or reach equality with)

emulate (strive to equal or match, especially by imitating)

 Context examples 

“My son's great capacity was tempted on, there, by a feeling of voluntary emulation and conscious pride,” the fond lady went on to say.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To be sure, my dear, that is very stupid indeed, and shows a great want of genius and emulation.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

This lady died, but her lessons were indelibly impressed on the mind of Safie, who sickened at the prospect of again returning to Asia and being immured within the walls of a harem, allowed only to occupy herself with infantile amusements, ill-suited to the temper of her soul, now accustomed to grand ideas and a noble emulation for virtue.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She boasted of beautiful paintings of landscapes and flowers by them executed; of songs they could sing and pieces they could play, of purses they could net, of French books they could translate; till my spirit was moved to emulation as I listened.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The deep remembrance of the sense I had, of being utterly without hope now; of the shame I felt in my position; of the misery it was to my young heart to believe that day by day what I had learned, and thought, and delighted in, and raised my fancy and my emulation up by, would pass away from me, little by little, never to be brought back any more; cannot be written.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)