• IPA: /ˈɛm.jə.leɪt/

emulate (emulates, present participle emulating; past and past participle emulated)

1. (now rare) To attempt to equal or be the same as.
2. To copy or imitate, especially a person.
3. (obsolete) To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.
   • 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 146:

     But the councell then present emulating my successe, would not thinke it fit to spare me fortie men to be hazzarded in those unknowne regions [...].

4. (computing) of a program or device: to imitate another program or device

• emulation
• emulator
• emulous

• French: émuler

• French: émuler, imiter
• German: nachahmen
• Spanish: emular

• French: émuler

• German: emulieren
• Spanish: emular

emulate

1. (obsolete) Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.

   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene i]:

     A most emulate pride.