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Alias vs Abbreviation - What's the difference?

alias | abbreviation |

In lang=en terms the difference between alias and abbreviation

is that alias is a second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect while abbreviation is one or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.

As nouns the difference between alias and abbreviation

is that alias is another name; an assumed name while abbreviation is the result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.

As an adverb alias

is otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called.

As a verb alias

is to assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.

alias

English

Adverb

(-)
  • Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called.
  • (legal)

    • Synonyms

    * AKA

    Coordinate terms

    * FKA, PKA

    Noun

    (es)
  • Another name; an assumed name.
  • (legal) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
  • (computing) An abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks.
  • (signal processing) An spurious signal generated as a technological artifact.

    • Synonyms

    * (another name) pseudonym

    Related terms

    * nom de plume

    See also

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    Verb

    (es)
  • (computing) To assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.
  • (signal processing, of two signals) to become indistinguishable
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    abbreviation

    English

    (wikipedia abbreviation)

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
  • (linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as, +, =, @.
  • The process of abbreviating.
  • (music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
  • (music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
  • Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
    • the phrase "civil rights" is an abbreviation for a whole complex of relationships. - Pres. Truman's comittee on Civil Rights
  • (biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
  • (mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.

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