Crossword clues for emulator
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emulator \Em"u*la`tor\, n. [L. aemulator.] One who emulates, or strives to equal or surpass.
As Virgil rivaled Homer, Milton was the emulator of
both.
--Bp.
Warburton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "rival, competitor," from Latin aemulator "a zealous imitator, imitative rival," agent noun from aemulari "to rival" (see emulation). The meaning "imitative rival" in English is from 1650s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person or thing that emulates. 2 (context computing English) A piece of software or hardware that simulates another system.
WordNet
Wikipedia
In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the guest). An emulator typically enables the host system to run software or use peripheral devices designed for the guest system.
Usage examples of "emulator".
I am Umlaut, also an emulator, just trying to deliver a letter to the Isle of Cats.
Would we ever know that there is a relation of twinship or rivalry between a man and his planet, if there were no sign upon his body or among the wrinkles on his face that he is an emulator of Mars or akin to Saturn?
About three million seconds after I picked it up and ran it on a basic environment hosted on a neural network emulator modeled on the components found in the stomatogastric ganglion of a spiny lobster.
Yet I craved the weather deck, where, alone, I could try to remember who or what I was, other than one of the most deeply bonded emulators in the world.
It was a mannerism learned from my Universal Emulators coach in client relations, a Japanese man rumored to have doubled for the Emperor for fifteen years.
A privileged conversation with the president of Universal Emulators, a surrendering of his employee insurance premium and I would not even be history.
To the very end of the springboard the emulator keeps up his courage and his desire to follow.
In any case, each Linux distribution had different utility programs, operating system emulators, compilers and more.