Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Visible or audible distortion introduced into digital information, such as images or audio signals, caused when a continuous line or transition is not smoothly captured or represented because of the low resolution or sampling rate of a digital medium.
- noun The appearance of jagged distortions in curves and diagonal lines in computer graphics.
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- verb Present participle of
alias . - noun signal processing, graphics, sound recording Distortion caused by a low sampling rate, as
Moire effect or stair-stepped edges.
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Examples
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Remember that aliasing occurs when we resample a signal containing frequencies above the
Site Home Shawn Hargreaves - MSFT 2011
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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.
Blog Posts kalali 2010
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* RFC 21: OGR SQL supports type casting and field name aliasing
Slashgeo 2010
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* RFC 21: OGR SQL supports type casting and field name aliasing
Slashgeo 2010
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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.
php|architect Giorgio Sironi 2010
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* RFC 21: OGR SQL supports type casting and field name aliasing
Slashgeo 2009
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However, when the sampling frequency is reduced (Figure 3 (c) and Figure 3 (d)), some information (frequencies) present in the original analog image are missed in the translation from analog to digital, and a phenomenon commonly referred to as aliasing begins to develop.
unknown title 2009
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In digital signal processing, anti-aliasing is the technique of minimizing the distortion artifacts known as aliasing when representing a high-resolution signal at a lower resolution.
Tubarão Esquilo por Ana Lutetia 2009
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However, when the sampling frequency is reduced (Figure 3 (c) and Figure 3 (d)), some information (frequencies) present in the original analog image are missed in the translation from analog to digital, and a phenomenon commonly referred to as aliasing begins to develop.
unknown title 2009
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* RFC 21: OGR SQL supports type casting and field name aliasing
Slashgeo 2009
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