Usually means: Imitates others for deception, adaptation.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. mimics: Merriam-Webster
  2. mimics: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mimics: Collins English Dictionary
  4. mimics: Vocabulary.com
  5. Mimics, mimics: Wordnik
  6. mimics: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. mimics: Wiktionary
  8. mimics: Dictionary.com
  9. mimics: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Mimics: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. mimics: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mimics: Legal dictionary
  2. mimics: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mimics: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mimics: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. mimics: Medical dictionary

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  1. MIMICS: Acronym Finder

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mimic)

verb:  (transitive) To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
verb:  (biology, transitive) To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.
noun:  A person who practices mimicry; especially:
noun:  A mime.
noun:  A comic who does impressions.
noun:  An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see the great imitator.
noun:  An imitation.
noun:  (fantasy, roleplaying games) A fictional monster able to disguise itself as an inanimate object, commonly a treasure chest, often with the intent of luring adventurers into a trap.
adjective:  Pertaining to mimicry; imitative.
adjective:  Mock, pretended.
adjective:  (mineralogy) Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.
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