1. the act or an instance of imitating.
2. something derived or copied from an original.
3. music repetition of a phrase or melody often with variations in key, rhythm, and voice.
4. music repetition of a theme in another voice such that each part continues polyphonously.
5. made to resemble another, usually superior material: imitation fur.

1. the act of imitating.
2. A copy.

1. the act of imitating.
2. that which is made or produced as a copy; that which is made to resemble something else, whether for laudable or for fraudulent purposes; likeness; resemblance.
3. one of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises. cf. canon.
4. the act of condition of imitating another species of animal, or a plant, or unanimate object. see imitate, v. t., 3.

1. the act of imitating; an imitating or copying.
2. that which is made or produced by imitating; hence, in general, a likeness or resemblance; a simulated reproduction or representation; more loosely, a likeness or resemblance in general.
3. specifically, in music, the process or act of repeating a melodic phrase or theme, either at a different pitch or key from the original, or in a different voice-part, or with some rhythmic or intervallic modification not so great as to destroy the resemblance.
4. made in imitation; counterfeit; not genuine; copied: as, imitation stone, lace, gold, etc.

1. something copied or derived from an original
2. copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else
3. the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations
4. a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect
5. not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article