emulator

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛmjəˌleɪtəɹ/

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• Hyphenation: em‧u‧la‧tor

emulator (plural emulators)

1. A person or thing that emulates.
   • (Can we date this quote by The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?) (volume 1)

     I admire the conqueror of Tlajcala and of Culna, but I find in the life of this emulator of Caesar actions which, if necessity warranted, the heart must still refuse to approve […]

2. (computing) A piece of software or hardware that simulates another system.

• emulate

• → Japanese: エミュレータ (emyurēta)

• “emulator”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “emulator”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “emulator”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “emulator”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

Internationalism; compare English emulator, French émulateur, German Emulator, ultimately from Latin aemulātor.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ.muˈla.tɔr/
• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification: e‧mu‧la‧tor

emulator m inan

1. (computing) emulator (piece of software or hardware that simulates another system)

   Hypernym: program

• emulator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• emulator in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French emulateur. Equivalent to emula +‎ -tor.

• IPA^(key): /e.mu.laˈtor/

emulator m or n (feminine singular emulatoare, masculine plural emulatori, feminine and neuter plural emulatoare)

1. emulator

• “emulator”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

Borrowed from English emulator.

emulator c

1. (computing) an emulator

• emulera
• emulering

• emulator in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• emulator in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)