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- Dictionaryalias/ˈeɪlɪəs/
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"
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ALIAS definition: 1. used when giving the name that a person is generally known by, after giving their real name: 2…. Learn more.
The meaning of ALIAS is an assumed or additional name that a person sometimes uses; sometimes, specifically : a pseudonym (such as a pen name or stage name) that is associated with a person's professional identity. How to use alias in a sentence.
Alias definition: a false name used to conceal one's identity; an assumed name. See examples of ALIAS used in a sentence.
ALIAS meaning: 1. used when giving the name that a person is generally known by, after giving their real name: 2…. Learn more.
An alias is a false name, especially one used by a criminal. Using an alias, he had rented a house in Fleet, Hampshire.
Your alias could be as important as the name you use when you’re on the run or as simple as your screen name on a social networking site. Either way, an alias is a temporary name, one you don’t use all the time or for every occasion.
Definition of alias noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
There are six meanings listed in OED's entry for the word alias. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
ALIAS definition: 1. a false name, especially one used by a criminal 2. used when giving the name that a person is…. Learn more.
From Latin alias (“at another time; in post-Augustan period, at another time or place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”), feminine accusative plural of alius (“other”). See else and alien.
