alias

Etymology

From Latin alias (“at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”). See else and alien.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.li.əs/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪliəs

Adverb

alias (not comparable)

1. Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called; also known as; formerly known as.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, 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.

   • 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:

     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?

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.

Noun

alias (plural aliases)

1. Another name; especially, an assumed name.

   Synonyms: (another name) synonym, poecilonym (rare), (assumed name) pseudonym

   Hyponyms: pen name, nom de plume; nom de guerre; nom de clavier, nom de Web, nom de voyage

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.

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, ambitransitive) To make or 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 with 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

See also

• Origin of signal processing usage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “alias”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “alias”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Alais, asail

Etymology

From Latin alias.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑliɑs/, [ˈɑ̝liɑ̝s̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑliɑs
• Hyphenation^(key): ali‧as

Interjection

alias

1. alias, AKA (used to introduce an alternative name)

   Synonyms: see eli

   • 2020 September 22, Raila Kinnunen, “70 vuotta Kirkan syntymästä: 'Poismennyttä ihmistä voi ajatella ilolla – Lähtijällä on nyt hyvä olla, hänellä ei ole hätää, ei kipua eikä tuskaa'”, in Apu‎:

     Hautakiviä kaatui ja ihmiset talloivat hautoja. Kirill ja pikkuveli Georgij alias Ykä päättivät, että sama ei tapahdu enää ikinä.

     Headstones fell and people trampled on the graves. Kirill and his little brother Georgij alias Ykä decided that such a thing would never happen again.

Noun

alias

1. alias

Further reading

• “alias”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Anagrams

• Alisa, Saila, laasi, lasia, saali, salia, silaa

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin aliās (“at another time; elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ljas/

• Audio:

  (file)

Adverb

alias

1. alias

Noun

alias m (plural alias)

1. alias

Anagrams

• salai

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin alias.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːli̯as/

• Audio:

  (file)

Adverb

alias

1. alias, also known as

   Synonyms: anders, eigentlich, benannt

Further reading

• “alias” in Duden online

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch alias, from Latin alias (“at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /aˈlias/ [aˈli.as]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: a‧li‧as

Adverb

alias

1. alias

Noun

alias (plural alias-alias)

1. alias
   1. another name; especially, an assumed name
   2. (computing) a name or string that can replace another name or string
2. (statistics) two similar branches of statistical analysis

Further reading

• “alias” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.