to follow or endeavor to follow as a model or example: to imitate an author's style; to imitate an older brother. to mimic; impersonate: The students imitated the teacher behind her back. to make a copy of; reproduce closely. to have or assume the appearance of; simulate; resemble.
The input device might be a keyboard, the output device might be a monitor, a communication device might be a modem, a secondary storage device might be disk drive, and the processing devices include central processing unit (CPU) and main memory.
Data has to flow into the system in some form. INPUT is the data flowing into the system from outside. The next stage in the information flow is the input data being manipulat â¦ ed in some way. PROCESSING is the action of manipulating the input into a more useful form.