Noun

A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.

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*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat : "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."

*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter

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Noun

(en noun)

The endeavor or desire to equal or excel someone else in qualities or actions.

... is a great figure who is worthy of respect and emulation .

(obsolete) Jealous rivalry; envy; envious contention.

*, New York Review Books 2001, p.263:

*:Scarce two gentlemen dwell together in the country […], but there is emulation betwixt them and their servants, some quarrel or some grudge betwixt their wives or children […].

(computing) Running a program or other software designed for a different system.