aliasing

Verb

alias (third-person singular simple present aliases, present participle aliasing, simple past and past participle aliased)

1. To assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.
2. (ambitransitive) To 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.1989, Ken C. Pohlmann, The compact disc: a handbook of theory and use, page 22

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