alias
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin alias (“at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”). See else and alien.
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AdverbEdit
alias (not comparable)
- Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called.
- 1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 3, page 168:
- Hitherto the commanding influence of Sir Robert Evelyn's character had sunk his own into insignificance—now he had no "rival near the throne," alias the bench of county magistrates.
- (law) Used to connect the different names of a person who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful
- Smith, alias Simpson.
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NounEdit
alias (plural aliases)
- Another name; an assumed name.
- (law) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
- (computing) An abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks.
- (signal processing) An spurious signal generated as a technological artifact.
SynonymsEdit
- (another name): pseudonym
TranslationsEdit
another name; an assumed name
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VerbEdit
alias (third-person singular simple present aliases, present participle aliasing, simple past and past participle aliased)
- (computing) To assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.
- (signal processing, of two signals) to become indistinguishable
- 1989, Ken C. Pohlmann, The compact disc: a handbook of theory and use, page 22:
- When the signal frequency reaches half the sampling frequency, there are only two samples per cycle, which is the absolute minimum needed to record a waveform. A higher frequency would cause the digitization system to alias.
- 1999, Carlo Bartolozzi; Riccardo Lencioni, Liver malignancies: diagnostic and interventional radiology, page 59:
- Finally, as it is a frequency detection technique, color Doppler US has the potential to alias
- 2005, James Bao-yen Tsui, Fundamentals of global positioning system receivers, page 106:
- This technique can be used to alias the L1 and L2 bands of the GPS into the baseband
TranslationsEdit
to assign an additional name to an entity
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See alsoEdit
- Origin of signal processing usage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further readingEdit
- “alias” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “alias” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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FinnishEdit
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alias
DeclensionEdit
Inflection of alias (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | alias | aliakset | |
genitive | aliaksen | aliasten aliaksien | |
partitive | aliasta | aliaksia | |
illative | aliakseen | aliaksiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | alias | aliakset | |
accusative | nom. | alias | aliakset |
gen. | aliaksen | ||
genitive | aliaksen | aliasten aliaksien | |
partitive | aliasta | aliaksia | |
inessive | aliaksessa | aliaksissa | |
elative | aliaksesta | aliaksista | |
illative | aliakseen | aliaksiin | |
adessive | aliaksella | aliaksilla | |
ablative | aliakselta | aliaksilta | |
allative | aliakselle | aliaksille | |
essive | aliaksena | aliaksina | |
translative | aliakseksi | aliaksiksi | |
instructive | — | aliaksin | |
abessive | aliaksetta | aliaksitta | |
comitative | — | aliaksineen |
Possessive forms of alias (type vastaus) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | aliakseni | aliaksemme |
2nd person | aliaksesi | aliaksenne |
3rd person | aliaksensa |
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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Learned borrowing from Latin aliās (“at another time; elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”).
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alias
NounEdit
alias m (plural alias)
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ItalianEdit
PronunciationEdit
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alias
NounEdit
alias m (invariable)
ReferencesEdit
- ^ alias in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From alius.
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aliās (not comparable)
- (time) at a time other than the present; at another time, at other times, on another occasion, sometimes
- (place) at another place, elsewhere
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AdjectiveEdit
aliās
ReferencesEdit
- “alias”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “alias”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- alias in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to be inattentive: alias res or aliud agere
- (ambiguous) more of this another time: sed de hoc alias pluribus
- (ambiguous) to be inattentive: alias res or aliud agere
PolishEdit
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alias m inan
- (computing) alias (abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of alias
ConjunctionEdit
alias
Further readingEdit
- alias in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- alias in Polish dictionaries at PWN
PortugueseEdit
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alias
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alias
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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alias
NounEdit
alias m (plural alias)
- alias
- Synonyms: sobrenombre, apodo, mote
Further readingEdit
- “alias”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014