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noun

Emulation n.

1.

The endeavor to equal or to excel another in qualities or actions; an assiduous striving to equal or excel another; rivalry. "A noble emulation heats your breast."

2.

Jealous rivalry; envy; envious contention. "Such factious emulations shall arise."

3.

Imitation (of an admired model) for the purpose of improving one's own qualities. "(Chivalry was) an ideal which, if never met with in real life, was acknowledged by all as the highest model for emulation."

4.

(Computers) The imitation of the actions of a computer system or component, especially a processor, by means of a computer program, with the goal of predicting the behavior and performance characteristics of that system without actually manufacturing it. "1996 marked the year that emulation became a mainstream design verification tool."

Synonyms: Competition; rivalry; contest; contention; strife. Emulation, Competition, Rivalry. Competition is the struggle of two or more persons for the same object. Emulation is an ardent desire for superiority, arising from competition, but now implying, of necessity, any improper feeling. Rivalry is a personal contest, and, almost of course, has a selfish object and gives rise to envy. "Competition and emulation have honor for their basis; rivalry is but a desire for selfish gratification. Competition and emulation animate to effort; rivalry usually produces hatred. Competition and emulation seek to merit success; rivalry is contented with obtaining it."

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Etymology of 'Emulation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Emulation" Quotes from Famous Books

... will remain among their primary associations, and reduce them throughout their time of studious preparation for life to the moral imbecility of an inward giggle at what might have stimulated their high emulation or fed the fountains of compassion, trust, and constancy. One wonders where these parents have deposited that stock of morally educating stimuli which is to be independent of poetic tradition, and to subsist in spite of the ...

— Impressions of Theophrastus Such • George Eliot

... do we not speak of anger, fear, desire, sorrow, love, emulation, envy, and the like, as pains which ...

— Philebus • Plato

... the result of emulation in the arts, caused by a desire for glory, proves for the most part to be one worthy of praise; but when it happens that the aspirant, through presumption and arrogance, comes to hold an inflated opinion of ...

— Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects - Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto • Giorgio Vasari

... Truesdale, in generous emulation. "Just what I did in Paris. I went all up and down the Rue de Crenelle and the Rue St. Dominique trying to select the right sort of hotels—houses, you know—for the Viscountess of Beauseant and the Duchess of Langeais and the Princess Galathionne, and all ...

— With the Procession • Henry B. Fuller

... this pupil of Booker Washington,—carried on under adverse circumstances,—is worthy of emulation. He has, and is now, doing much good work for his race. He has won the confidence and esteem of all the white and colored citizens of this section of the country. He is a remarkable man, a great benefactor to his race, and it affords me great pleasure to testify as to his history and character. ...

— Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt • William James Edwards

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