From Latin alias (“at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”). See else and alien.
Meanings
(not-comparable) Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called; also known as; formerly known as.
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:
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:
(not-comparable) 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
ru про́звище (another name; an assumed name) · sv tillnamn (another name; an assumed name) · es seudónimo (another name; an assumed name) · ja 異名 (another name; an assumed name) · ca àlies (another name; an assumed name) · eo kromnomo (abbreviation that replaces a string of commands (computing)) · sv pseudonym (another name; an assumed name) · cmn 別名 /别名 (another name; an assumed name) · fi alias (another name; an assumed name) · eu ezizen (another name; an assumed name) · es apodo (another name; an assumed name) · enm surnoun (another name; an assumed name) · bg про́звище (another name; an assumed name) · es sobrenombre (another name; an assumed name) · bg псевдони́м (another name; an assumed name) · sw jina bandia (another name; an assumed name) · uk прі́звисько (another name; an assumed name) · sv alias (another name; an assumed name) · ga ainm bréige (another name; an assumed name) · uk кли́чка (another name; an assumed name) · io alias (another name; an assumed name) · ja 別名 (another name; an assumed name) · pt pseudônimo (another name; an assumed name) · sv alias (abbreviation that replaces a string of commands (computing)) · cy enw arall (another name; an assumed name) · lt slapyvardis (another name; an assumed name) · ko 가명 (another name; an assumed name) · ko 별명 (another name; an assumed name) · cmn 化名 (another name; an assumed name) · ru кли́чка (another name; an assumed name) · be псеўдані́м (another name; an assumed name) · pt cognome (another name; an assumed name) · az ləqəb (another name; an assumed name) · or ଓରଫ୍ (another name; an assumed name) · ru вы́мышленное и́мя (another name; an assumed name) · ja 仮名 (another name; an assumed name) · uk псевдоні́м (another name; an assumed name) · es alias (another name; an assumed name) · eu goitizen (another name; an assumed name) · be клі́чка (another name; an assumed name) · ga ailias (another name; an assumed name) · enm surname (another name; an assumed name) · ja 偽名 (another name; an assumed name) · be мяну́шка (another name; an assumed name) · cy alias (another name; an assumed name) · pt pseudónimo (another name; an assumed name) · ru псевдони́м (another name; an assumed name) · lt pseudonimas (another name; an assumed name) · fr pseudonyme (another name; an assumed name) · es alias (abbreviation that replaces a string of commands (computing)) · io pseudonimo (another name; an assumed name) · ba ҡушамат (another name; an assumed name) · eo alinomo (another name; an assumed name) · ja 雅号 (another name; an assumed name) · id alias (another name; an assumed name) · el ψευδώνυμο (another name; an assumed name) · sv öknamn (another name; an assumed name) · de Pseudonym (another name; an assumed name) · de Deckname (another name; an assumed name) · pl alias (another name; an assumed name) · fa-ira نامِ مُسْتَعار (another name; an assumed name)
From Latin alias (“at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”). See else and alien.
Meanings
To assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.
(ambitransitive, of two signals) To make or become indistinguishable.
Finally, as it is a frequency detection technique, color Doppler US has the potential to alias 1999, Carlo Bartolozzi with Riccardo Lencioni, Liver malignancies: diagnostic and interventional radiology, page 59:
This technique can be used to alias the L1 and L2 bands of the GPS into the baseband 2005, James Bao-yen Tsui, Fundamentals of global positioning system receivers, page 106:
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:
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Translations (5)
fi aliasoida (to assign an additional name to an entity) · sv aliasa (to assign an additional name to an entity) · eo alinomi (to assign an additional name to an entity) · eo kromnomi (to assign an additional name to an entity) · eo sinonimi (to assign an additional name to an entity)