alias

Meaning of alias

adverb
  1. used to indicate that a named person is also known or more familiar under another specified name.
    Eric Blair, alias George Orwell
noun
  1. a false or assumed identity.
    a spy operating under the alias Barsad
  2. each of a set of signal frequencies which, when sampled at a given uniform rate, would give the same set of sampled values, and thus might be incorrectly substituted for one another when reconstructing the original signal.
verb
  1. misidentify (a signal frequency), introducing distortion or error.
    fringes at higher spatial frequency are aliased by the sensor

late Middle English: from Latin, ‘at another time, otherwise’.

Information about alias

Hyphenation of alias

alias

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • alias is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

alias synonyms

Meaning also known as:

aka

Meaning in circumstances different from those present or considered; or else:

otherwise

Meaning a fictitious name, especially one used by an author:

pseudonym

Meaning a person's nickname:

sobriquet

Meaning an assumed or false identity:

incognito

Meaning a familiar or humorous name given to a person or thing instead of or as well as the real name:

nickname

Meaning an anonymous person or publication:

anonym

Translation of alias

Anagrams of alias

Ailsa, Alisa, salai

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