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   A·li·as

   /ˈālēəs/

   

   adverb

   • 1. used to indicate that a named person is also known or more familiar under another specified name: "Eric Blair, alias George Orwell"
   • ▪ indicating another term or synonym: "the catfish—alias bullhead—is a mighty tasty fry-up"

   noun

   • 1. a false or assumed identity: "a spy operating under the alias Barsad"
   • ▪ an alternative name or label that refers to a file, command, address, or other item, and can be used to locate or access it.
   • ▪ each of a set of signal frequencies that, 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"

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

   Scrabble Points: 5

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