emulation

See also: Emulation and émulation

English edit

emulation (countable and uncountable, plural emulations)

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.
(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 […]
(computing) Execution of a program or other software designed for a different system, by simulating parts of the other system.

endeavour or desire to equal or excel

jealous rivalry

software