Imitation n. : The act of imitating.

Imitation n. : 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.

Imitation n. : 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.

Imitation n. : The act of condition of imitating another species of animal, or a plant, or unanimate object. See Imitate, v. t., 3.

Example:
Have you ever used Imitation crab meat to make crab cakes.? What was your experience?

Taxonomy
animals, Hayes, cultures, Heyes, mirror neurons, chimpanzee, Huber, paradigm, Custance, Animal Behaviour, free encyclopedia, reported evidence, Journal of Comparative Psychology, language, scientists, Definitions, models, Voelkl.

Defination from the web:
Imitation, Science 286:5449 (1999) ... V.S. Ramachandran, Mirror Neurons and imitation learning as the driving force behind "the great leap forward" in ...