emulator
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.
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How to use emulator in a sentence
He first tried to emulate Britain’s most popular musician before the Beatles, Lonnie Donegan, dubbed “the King of Skiffle.”
The Animals guitarist Hilton Valentine dies at 77 | Phil Davison | January 31, 2021 | Washington PostI really wanted the clothes to emulate professional style—think fitted pencil skirts and dresses.
Using a commercial quantum annealer called D-Wave, Abel and Spannowsky programmed a string of about 200 qubits to emulate a quantum field with a higher- and a lower-energy state, analogous to a false vacuum and a true vacuum.
Physicists Study How Universes Might Bubble Up and Collide | Charlie Wood | January 25, 2021 | Quanta MagazineThe Rockets never had quite enough to reach the NBA’s promised land — especially once more and more teams began emulating their strategies.
James Harden’s Rockets Changed The NBA Forever | Neil Paine (neil.paine@fivethirtyeight.com) | January 15, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightThis wine is not grassy in the New Zealand-style that Chile often emulates.
This chianti will put you under the Tuscan sun and ground you with earthy flavors, too | Dave McIntyre | January 15, 2021 | Washington Post
I believe the latter lay at the center of another, even more fanatical emulator clique.
The Extinction Parade: An Original Zombie Story by Max Brooks | Max Brooks | January 14, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTThe climate is described by some emulator of Thomson to consist of "Tre mesi d'Inferno, nove d'inverno."
The Argosy | VariousOf 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."
We Philologists, Volume 8 (of 18) | Friedrich Nietzsche
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