Alias

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Alias may refer to:

• Pseudonym, a fictitious name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose
  • Pen name, a pseudonym adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name
  • Stage name, a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers
• Nickname, a substitute for the proper name of a familiar person, place or thing
• Code name, a code word or name used, sometimes clandestinely, to refer to another name, word, project, or person

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

• Alias (2013 film), a 2013 Canadian documentary film
• Alias (TV series), an American action thriller series 2001–2006
• Alias the Jester, a 1995 British animated series
• Alias – the Bad Man, a 1931 American Western film

Gaming

• Alias (board game)
• Alias (Forgotten Realms), a fictional character in Dungeons & Dragons
• Alias (video game), 2004, based on the TV series

Literature

• Alias (comics), an American comic book series
• Alias Enterprises, an American publishing company
• Alias, a character in the British comic book series Kingsman: The Red Diamond

Music

• Alias (band), a Canadian rock supergroup
  • Alias (album), 1990
• Alias (The Magic Numbers album), 2014
• Alias (EP), by Shygirl, 2020
• Alias (musician) (Brendon Whitney, 1976–2018), an American rapper
• Alias (Ryan Tedder, born 1979), American singer, songwriter and record producer
• Alias Records, a record label
• "Alias", a song by In Flames from the 2008 album A Sense of Purpose
• "Alias", a song by Scar Tissue from the 2008 album Form/Alkaline

Computing

• alias (command), a shell command
• Alias (Mac OS), a small file representing another object
• Alias (SQL), a feature of SQL
• Aliasing (computing), where a data location can be accessed through different symbolic names
• Alias Systems Corporation, a former software company
  • PowerAnimator, also known as Alias
• Autodesk Alias, a family of computer-aided industrial design software
• Email alias, a forwarding email address
• URL shortening, where a (short) URL redirects to a longer URL

People

• Alias Ali (1939–2014), Malaysian politician
• Alias Avidzba (fl. from 2015), Abkhazian politician
• Florina Alías (1921–1999), Spanish writer
• Siti Aisyah Alias (born 1966), Malaysian polar scientist

Other uses

• Alias, Iran, or Qahremanabad, a village

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Alias
• All pages with titles containing Alias
• Aliasing, an effect in signal processing
• Alias method, a family of algorithms for sampling from a discrete probability distribution
• Alias transformation, in analytic geometry
• Allias, a neighbourhood of Tirana, Albania

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This page was last edited on 12 March 2024, at 15:58