| 1. | (jargon) | aliasing - When several different identifiers refer to the
same object. The term is very general and is used in many
contexts. See alias, aliasing bug, anti-aliasing. | |
| 2. | (hardware) | aliasing - (Or "shadowing") Where a hardware device responds at multiple addresses because it only decodes a subset of the address lines, so different values on the other lines are ignored. |