Etymology From Latin alias (“at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”). See else and alien.
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Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called; also known as; formerly known as.
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.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 168:
When indeed a Popish monarch may fill our throne, and the successor of St. Peter shall be the spiritual head of our Church; then shall your “esoterics,” alias “Church principles,” be in the ascendant in our Universities, and Who shall say that we may not have a Thorp lecturer in each of our Colleges, Neale and Webb scholarships, Regii professores supplying the places of those who shall now be superannuated, all teaching, and empowered to confer degrees in the, symbolism of mystical divinity:—the professor of music, not dealing as he now must, with crotchets and quavers, but in the far higher branches of the sacramentality of sounds, with their correspondent colours, instruments, bearing, &c. &c., and so of others?1845, Clergymen of the Church of England, editors, The Christian’s Monthly Magazine and Church of England Review, volume IV, London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., pages 364–365:
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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
Smith, alias Simpson.
Synonyms
AKA
Coordinate terms
FKA, PKA
alias
noun
Etymology From Latin alias (“at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”). See else and alien.
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Another name; especially, an assumed name.
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Law A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences An abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences An alternate name assigned to something, e.g. a database column to avoid ambiguity in a query.
Etymology From Latin alias (“at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”). See else and alien.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.
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.1989, Ken C. Pohlmann, The compact disc: a handbook of theory and use, page 22:
Finally, as it is a frequency detection technique, color Doppler US has the potential to alias1999, Carlo Bartolozzi with Riccardo Lencioni, Liver malignancies: diagnostic and interventional radiology, page 59:
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This technique can be used to alias the L1 and L2 bands of the GPS into the baseband2005, James Bao-yen Tsui, Fundamentals of global positioning system receivers, page 106: