alias

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

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.li.əs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪliəs

alias (not comparable)

1. Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], 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.

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.

• AKA

• FKA, PKA

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.

• (another name): pseudonym

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

• Origin of signal processing usage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• alias in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “alias”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• Alais, asail

From Latin alias.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑliɑs/, [ˈɑliɑs̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑliɑs
• Syllabification^(key): a‧li‧as

alias

1. alias

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

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

• IPA^(key): /a.ljas/

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alias

1. alias

alias m (plural alias)

1. alias

• salai

Unadapted borrowing from Latin alias.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ljas/[1]
• Rhymes: -aljas
• Hyphenation: à‧lias

alias

1. alias

alias m (invariable)

1. alias

• salai

From alius.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.li.aːs/, [ˈälʲiäːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.li.as/, [ˈäːliäs]

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

• Catalan: àlies
• English: alias
• Portuguese: aliás
• Spanish: alias

aliās

1. accusative feminine plural of alius

• “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be inattentive: alias res or aliud agere
    
  • (ambiguous) more of this another time: sed de hoc alias pluribus
    

Learned borrowing from Latin aliās.[1] First attested in the 19 century.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ljas/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aljas
• Syllabification: a‧lias

alias m inan

1. (computing) alias (abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks)

alias

1. (literary, with pseudonyms) AKA, alias

   Synonyms: aka, vel

• alias in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• alias in Polish dictionaries at PWN

alias

1. second-person singular present indicative of aliar

From Latin alias.

alias

1. alias

From Latin aliās.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaljas/ [ˈa.ljas]
• Rhymes: -aljas
• Syllabification: a‧lias

alias

1. also known as; alias

alias m (plural alias)

1. alias

   Synonyms: sobrenombre, apodo, mote

• “alias”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014