alias
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin alias (“at another time; in post-Augustan period, at another time or place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”), feminine accusative plural of alius (“other”). See else and alien.
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AdverbEdit
alias (not comparable)
- Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called.
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- (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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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EtymologyEdit
From Latin alias (“at another time; in post-Augustan period, at another time or place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”), feminine accusative plural of alius (“other”).
AdverbEdit
alias
NounEdit
alias m (plural alias)
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ItalianEdit
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From alius.
AdverbEdit
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
DescendantsEdit
AdjectiveEdit
aliās
ReferencesEdit
- alias in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, 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