[ey-lee-uh
s] Pronunciation Key noun, plural -as·es, adverb | 1. | a false name used to conceal one's identity; an assumed name: The police files indicate that “Smith” is an alias for Simpson. |
| 2. | at another time; in another place; in other circumstances; otherwise. “Simpson alias Smith” means that Simpson in other circumstances has called himself Smith. |
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| a·li·as
(ā'lē-əs, āl'yəs) Pronunciation Key
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adv. Also known as; otherwise: Johnson, alias Johns. [Latin aliās, otherwise, at another time, from feminine accusative pl. of alius, other; see al-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
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alias
| alias | |
adverb | |
| 1. | as known or named at another time or place; "Mr. Smith, alias Mr. Lafayette" |
noun | |
| 1. | a name that has been assumed temporarily |
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Hostname aliases often indicate that the host with that alias provides a particular network service such as archie, finger, FTP, or World-Wide Web. The assignment of services to computers can then be changed simply by moving an alias (e.g. www.doc.ic.ac.uk) from one Internet address to another, without the clients needing to be aware of the change.
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Statically deciding (e.g. via a program analysis executed by a sophisticated compiler) which locations of a program will be aliased at run time is an undecidable problem.
[G. Ramalingam: "The Undecidability of Aliasing", ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), Volume 16, Issue 5, September 1994, Pages: 1467 - 1471, ISSN:0164-0925.]
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Alias
A"li*as\, adv. [L., fr. alius. See Else.] (Law) (a) Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson. (b) At another time.Alias
A"li*as\, n.; pl. Aliases. [L., otherwise, at another time.] (Law) (a) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect. (b) Another name; an assumed name.Copyright © 2008, Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.











