mimetic

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The funky, carousel shape of the building is reminiscent of mimetic, or programmatic, architecture that began cropping up in Los Angeles in the early 20th century.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2025

Prince, a professor in Waterloo's Department of Chemical Engineering, utilized these human-tissue mimetic hydrogels to promote the growth of small-scale tumour replicas derived from donated tumour tissue.

From Science Daily • Feb. 12, 2024

At some level, it really, really means that this spoken system and even sign system that we do needs the mimetic system that we create when we gesture.

From Salon • Jul. 8, 2023

But Magritte suggests that art is always mimetic, if not of the external world then at the very least of consciousness.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2022

“Not chameleon, but it’s a good guess. We thought maybe octopus? They have incredible mimetic capabilities, but it wasn’t that, either.”

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste