<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person or thing that imitates: Until quite recently, emulators copied the behaviors of those higher in the social scale than themselves; nowadays, however, people in higher social classes are imitating those in lower ones.</li><li>Computers: hardware or software designed to imitate a different piece of hardware or a different software system, in order to do the same work or run the same programs: These JavaScript emulators allow you to run newer programs on older, incompatible operating systems.</li></ul>