alias

See also: aliás and alías

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.li.əs/
• Rhymes: -eɪliəs

Adverb

alias (not comparable)

1. Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called.
2. (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

Noun

alias (plural aliases)

1. Another name; an assumed name.
2. (law) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
3. (computing) An abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks.
4. (signal processing) An spurious signal generated as a technological artifact.

Synonyms

• (another name): pseudonym

Related terms

• nom de plume

Translations

another name; an assumed name

• Bulgarian: псевдоним (bg) m (psevdonim), прозвище (bg) n (prozvište)
• Catalan: àlies m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 別名 (zh), 别名 (zh) (biémíng), 化名 (zh) (huàmíng)

• Finnish: alias (fi)
• French: pseudonyme (fr) m
• German: Pseudonym (de) n, Deckname (de) m

• Ido: pseudonimo (io), alias (io)
• Japanese: 偽名 (ja) (ぎめい, gimei), 異名 (ja) (いみょう, imyō), エイリアス (eiriasu), 雅号 (がごう, gagō), 別名 (ja) (べつめい, betsumei) (about references in programming)
• Oriya: ଓରଫ୍
• Portuguese: pseudónimo (pt) m (Portugal), pseudônimo (pt) m (Brazil), cognome (pt) m
• Russian: псевдони́м (ru) m (psevdoním), про́звище (ru) n (prózvišče), кли́чка (ru) f (klíčka), вы́мышленное и́мя n (výmyšlennoje ímja)
• Spanish: alias m, seudónimo (es) m
• Swedish: alias (sv), pseudonym (sv) c, öknamn (sv) n, tillnamn (sv) n

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} pseudonyme m
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} pseudonimo m

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} pseudonim n

See also

• Origin of signal processing usage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

alias (third-person singular simple present aliases, present participle aliasing, simple past and past participle aliased)

1. (computing) To assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.
2. (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

Further reading

• 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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French

Etymology

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”).

Adverb

alias

1. alias

Noun

alias m (plural alias)

1. alias

Anagrams

• salai

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Italian

Adverb

alias

1. alias

Noun

alias m (plural alias)

1. alias

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Latin

Etymology

From alius.

Adverb

aliās (not comparable)

1. (time) at a time other than the present; at another time, at other times, on another occasion, sometimes
2. (place) at another place, elsewhere

Descendants

• English: alias
• Portuguese: aliás

Adjective

aliās

1. accusative feminine plural of alius

References

• 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 Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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
    

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Portuguese

Verb

alias

1. second-person singular (tu) present indicative of aliar

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Spanish

Adverb

alias

1. alias

Synonyms

• por otro nombre

Noun

alias m (plural alias)

1. alias

Synonyms

• sobrenombre
• apodo
• mote