ALL meanings of alias
a·li·as
A a - abbreviation Technical meaning of ALIAS ALgorIthmic ASsembly language 3
- countable noun alias An alias is a false name, especially one used by a criminal. 3
- preposition alias You use alias when you are mentioning another name that someone, especially a criminal or an actor, is known by. 3
- adverb alias at another time or place known as or named 3
- noun alias an assumed name 3
- noun alias an assumed name; another name 3
- adverb alias otherwise named 3
- noun Definition of alias in Technology (language) (ALIAS) A machine oriented variant of BLISS. ALIAS was implemented in BCPL for the PDP-9. 1
- noun plural alias a false name used to conceal one's identity; an assumed name: The police files indicate that “Smith” is an alias for Simpson. 1
- adverb alias otherwise called; alias. 1
- noun alias false or alternative name 1
- adverb alias also known as 1
- noun Technical meaning of alias 1. (operating system) A name, usually short and easy to remember and type, that is translated into another name or string, usually long and difficult to remember or type. Most command interpreters (e.g. Unix's csh) allow the user to define aliases for commands, e.g. "alias l ls -al". These are loaded into memory when the interpreter starts and are expanded without needing to refer to any file. 2. (networking) One of several alternative hostnames with the same Internet address. E.g. in the Unix hosts database (/etc/hosts or NIS map) the first field on a line is the Internet address, the next is the official hostname (the "canonical name" or "CNAME"), and any others are aliases. Hostname aliases often indicate that the host with that alias provides a particular network service such as archie, finger, FTP, or 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. 3. (file system) The name used by Apple computer, Inc. for symbolic links when they added them to the System 7 operating system in 1991. 4. (programming) Two names (identifiers), usually of local or global variables, that refer to the same resource (memory location) are said to be aliased. Although names introduced in programming languages are typically mapped to different memory locations, aliasing can be introduced by the use of address arithmetic and pointers or language-specific features, like C++ references. 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. 1
- noun alias Used to indicate that a named person is also known or more familiar under another specified name. 1
- noun alias Another name; an assumed name. 0
- noun alias (law) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect. 0
- noun alias (computing) An abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks. 0
- noun alias (signal processing) An spurious signal generated as a technological artifact. 0
- verb alias (computing) To assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one. 0
- verb alias (signal processing, of two signals) to become indistinguishable. 0
- adverb alias Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called. 0
- adverb alias (law) Used to connect the different names of a person who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson. 0