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imitation

im.i.ta.tion \.im-*-'ta--sh*n\ \-shn*l, -sh*n-*l\ n 1: an act of imitating  
   2: something produced as a copy : COUNTERFEIT  3: a literary work designed 
   to reproduce the style of another author  4: the repetition in a voice part 
   of the melodic theme, phrase, or motive p reviously found in another part 
   5: participation by a sensible object in a transcendent idea  6a: the 
   execution of an act supposedly as a direct response to the percepti on of 
   another person performing the act 6b: the assumption of the modes of 
   behavior observed in other individuals  - imitation aj