1 Physics & Telecommunications the misidentification of a signal frequency, introducing distortion or error:high-frequency sounds are prone to aliasing
2 Computing the use of aliases to designate files, commands, addresses, or other items.
3 Computing the distortion of a reproduced image so that curved or inclined lines appear inappropriately jagged, caused by the mapping of a number of points to the same pixel.
aliasing in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of aliasing in the US English dictionary
