The act of imitating. / (attributive) A copy or simulation; something that is not the real thing.

To follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.

Imitating; copying; not original. / Modelled after another thing.

Synthetically produced vanillin, used in place of vanilla extract from vanilla beans.

A person who imitates or apes another.

Something or someone that is unique and individual. / A state where a product or idea cannot be copied, usually because of copyright rules.

(organic chemistry) A heterocyclic organic compound containing two nitrogen atoms separated by a carbon atom in a five-membered ring, called 1,3-diazole in IUPAC nomenclature.

plural of imidazole

Onomatopoeia.

(organic chemistry) A five-membered heterocycle containing three carbon atoms, two non-adjacent nitrogen atoms and one double bond