0 a person who copies someone or something that they think is good:
The difference between Ms McArthur and her countless imitators is the elegance of her writing.
Both initiator and imitator accumulate the frequencies of uses and of successes of each of their vowels.
Later the original innovator decided to enter, possibly to take advantage of the weak marketing strength of the imitator in that period.
It is assumed that the imitator moves toward full realization of his share at the rate of 100 per cent per year following imitation.
In the late seventeenth century, it had few, if any, imitators.
There is considerable pressure on musicians to aim to be no more than very good imitators.
Rate at which the imitator moves toward his market share.
But imitator's varieties will also acquire their potential market share only over a period of time.
If we cannot distinguish between original and imitation in such cases, we must always concede that an imitator may have been at work.
