imitation

noun

1. the act of imitating
2. 1. the result or product of imitating; artificial likeness; copy
   2. a counterfeit
3. Biol. mimicry (sense )
4. Music the repetition in close succession of a theme or theme fragment in a different voice: used often as a technique of counterpoint
5. Philos.
   1. in Platonism, the process wherein sensible objects imperfectly embody unchanging, immaterial models or archetypes
   2. in Aristotelianism, artistic portrayal not as literal copying but as representation of the essential nature of something

adjective