0 the act of copying the sounds or behaviour of a particular person or animal, often in order to make people laugh : --
What is interesting is that the mimicry was through cross-industry contacts, not of structurally similar competitors.
Several microbial antigens have been identified as potentially important in the process of the induction of autoimmunity by molecular mimicry.
A fascinating array of contradictions, overlaps, collusions, protrusions, and, at times, mimicry and cooperation thus developed.
You can imagine scenarios of different complexity, from the instinctive mimicry of a newborn baby to the conscious debating of polished politicians.
The typesetting on page 271 suggests the spiralling pattern of that fall, an alphabetized mimicry of technology gone dreadfully wrong.
In the imaginative space, 'spatialisation' is most effective because the mapping will exist at various levels of abstraction, avoiding any mimicry.
The delay between the model and its repetition, as well as the intervening speech material, were expected to minimize direct mimicry of the model.
Such signs as gesture, mimicry, movement, dialogue, the paralinguistic qualities of voice, and silence are integral to a given work and communicate something to someone.