Definition of "aliasing" []

• The appearance of jagged distortions in curves and diagonal lines in computer graphics because the resolution is limited or diminished. (noun)
• The static distortion in digital sound caused by a low sampling rate. (noun)

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• "Remember that aliasing occurs when we resample a signal containing frequencies above the"
• "Password aliasing is very helpful when we do not want to give our passwords to the personal in charge of application server management or administration tasks."
• "Being able to refer to classes in the current namespace without their fully qualified name is a good improvement over the long class names we had to deal with before namespaces, but we can expand the name aliasing further."