emulation
emulation
Definition
emu·lation (em′yo̵̅o̅ lā′s̸hən, -yə-)
noun
- the act of emulating
- desire or ambition to equal or surpass
- Obsolete
- ambitious rivalry
- envious dislike
- Comput. the act or an instance of using an emulator
Etymology: L aemulatio
em′u·la′·tive adjective
em′u·la′·tively adverb
emulation
Telecom Definition
- The process of imitating a computer or computer software program.Terminal emulation, for example, is the process by which a microcomputer imitates a dumb terminal in order to communicate with a mainframe computer.
- Circuit emulation is the process by which a broadband circuit can support many virtual circuits (VCs), with each performing as a distinct legacy physical circuit. See also broadband, circuit, dumb terminal, mainframe, microcomputer, and VC.
emulation
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- encourage: But they can teach, and inspire, and encourage emulation.
- leave: The FFE was changed back to default to using that native facility, leaving emulation as an option.
- include: The libc support ( including emulation on older kernels without the system calls ) was added in glibc 2.1.
Preposition: for
- beginner: ZX Spectrum emulation for beginners... will have to download an emulator.
Adjective modifier
- vt100: To run pine on the Teaching System, you need at least vt100 terminal emulation.
- terminal: Is there a program similar to either one of these that can provide terminal emulation on Linux.
- sound: As a result the sound emulation which is pretty good actually sounds stretched and of a poor quality.
- perfect: As well as near perfect graphics emulation, sound emulation is also included, and works very well indeed.
Modifies a noun
- .net: This emulator is a... emulation.net... is a handheld, portable gaming system by Nintendo.
- mode: In the HP emulation mode, what printer driver should I select in the software?
- software: You must have a graphics terminal or use graphics terminal emulation software.
- layer: Why shouldn't I just use a Windows emulation layer or toolkit on my Linux system to migrate my application?
- program: Alternatively you can run a Mac or PC emulator to run a terminal emulation program from there.
- scene: Being on the young side, how come you are so interested in the emulation scene?
Noun used with modifier
- terminal: To conduct terminal emulation or to transfer files.. .
- os: Visit my home page. emulation.net: Emulators for the Mac OS emulation.net is dedicated to emulation on the Mac OS.
- mouse: Also, is there any was to do mouse emulation without a mouse?
- printer: Check to make sure the driver matches the printer emulation mode.
- PC: Forums Discuss ' Playstation PC emulation software ships.. .
- hardware: Hardware Emulation: all the major hardware on the BBC is.. .
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