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An alias is another name someone uses — often to hide their real identity, like a criminal's alias, or a writer's pen name. In computers, an alias is a shortcut name you set up for something, like a nickname for a long email address or a quick command that stands in for a longer one.
化名；別名；(電腦)別名指令
組成From Latin alias, meaning "at another time" or "otherwise" — from alius, meaning "other."
同家族的字
- alibishares the Latin root alius, meaning 'other' — alibi literally means 'elsewhere'
原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
aliasadv/ˈeɪ.li.əs/
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Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called; also known as; formerly known as.
- 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.
- 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?
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lawUsed 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.
aliasnoun/ˈeɪ.li.əs/
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Another name; especially, an assumed name.
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lawA second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
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computingengineeringmathematicsAn abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks.
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computingengineeringmathematicsAn alternate name assigned to something, e.g. a database column to avoid ambiguity in a query.
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computingengineeringmathematicsA spurious signal generated as a technological artifact.
aliasverb/ˈeɪ.li.əs/
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computingengineeringmathematicsTo assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.
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computingengineeringmathematicsTo make or become indistinguishable.
- 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.
- Finally, as it is a frequency detection technique, color Doppler US has the potential to alias
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。