adj Used in describing a type of architecture, once common on the American roadside, wherein the form of the building was physically suggestive of the type of business conducted there; also called programmatic architecture More broadly, the term can be used to refer to virtually any building which defies common conventions and seeks to mimic something other than a building One of the most famous examples was Los Angeles' Brown Derby Restaurant
Mimetic movements or activities are ones in which you imitate something. Both realism and naturalism are mimetic systems or practices of representation. copying the movements or appearance of someone or something else (mimetikos, from mimeisthai )
\mim-ET-ik\, adjective: 1 Apt to imitate; given to mimicry; imitative 2 Characterized by mimicry; -- applied to animals and plants; as, mimetic species; mimetic organisms