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.
Input/output (C++) (Redirected from Iostream) In the C++ programming language, input/output library refers to a family of class templates and supporting functions in the C++ Standard Library that implement stream-based input/output capabilities. It is an object-oriented alternative to C's FILE-based streams from the C standard library.