Look up: aliasing

1. aliasing
   1. (jargon) 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) (Or 'shadowing') Where a hardware device responds at multiple addresses because it only decodes a subset of the addre...
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2. Aliasing
   An occurrence of interference where an analogue signal has been digitised. This can occur in images from a CCD chip camera where it is looking at a lots of vertical lies spaced closely together (high frequency), it is also known as Moiré patterning.
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3. Aliasing
   Visibly jagged steps along angled lines or object edges, due to sharp tonal contrasts between pixels.
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4. Aliasing
   A sampler mis-recognizing a signal sent to it that is at a frequency higher than the Nyquist Frequency. Upon playback, the system will provide a signal at an incorrect frequency (called an alias frequency). Aliasing is a kind of distortion.
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5. Aliasing
   (Digital cameras and photo printers) Pixel-shaped curves on the diagonal edges of objects. This can sometimes occur since all graphics consist of individual pixels. Anti-aliasing reduces this unwelcome effect by recalculating the contrast values of the neighbouring pixels and matching them up with each other.
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6. Aliasing
   Unwanted frequencies produced when harmonic components in the audio signal being sampled by a digital recording device or generated within a digital sound source are above the Nyquist frequency. Aliasing is also sometimes referred to as fold-over. See Nyquist Frequency
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7. Aliasing
   a type of distortion that occurs when digitally recording high frequencies with a low sample rate. A visual analogy can be found in video, when a car's wheels appear to slowly spin backwards while the car is quickly moving forward. Similarly when you try to record a frequency greater than one half o...
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8. Aliasing
   The erroneous interpretation of high-frequency signals as lower-frequency signals. Such misinterpretations are an expected result of making discrete measurements with sampling devices such as analog-to-digital (A/D) converters.In motion sequences temporal aliasing is the effect that occurs when the ...
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9. Aliasing
   In a sampled data system, the analog input must be sampled at a rate of at least twice the bandwidth of the signal in order to avoid loss of data (Nyquist Theorem). Adhering to the Nyquist Theorem prevents in-band 'alias' signals, which are beat frequencies between the analog signal and the sampling clock that inherently occur.
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10. aliasing
    the visual effect that occurs on a display screen whenever the degree of detail in the displayed image exceeds the resolution available on the output device Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • the introduction of error into a signal when the sampling rate i...
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11. Aliasing
    When a line or any shape (curve, circle or font text character) is painted, and its edges are not perfectly horizontal or vertical, some pixels are only partially covered. The resulting jagged-edged lines are said to be aliased. Aliasing gives lines a 'stair-step' or 'jaggy' appearance. The greater ...
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12. aliasing
    <microscopy> A pattern of image sampling error in digital systems. Aliasing forces spatial frequency components higher than a critical value (the Nyquist frequency) to be displayed at progressively lower frequencies. Aliasing introduces an undesirable moire pattern when the spatial frequency o...
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13. Aliasing
    [computing] In computing, aliasing describes a situation in which a data location in memory can be accessed through different symbolic names in the program. Thus, modifying the data through one name implicitly modifies the values associated to all aliased names, which may not be expected by ...
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14. Aliasing
    In signal processing and related disciplines, aliasing refers to an effect that causes different signals to become indistinguishable (or aliases of one another) when sampled. It also refers to the distortion or artifact that results when the signal reconstructed from samples is different from the o...
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15. Aliasing
    An undesirable distortion component that can arise in any digitally encoded information (sound or picture).
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16. Aliasing
    A distortion (artifact) in the reproduction of digital audio or video that results when the signal frequency is more than twice the sampling frequency. The resolution is insufficient to distinguish between alternate reconstructions of the waveform, thus admitting additional noise that was not present in the original signal.
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17. aliasing
    introduction of errors into the frequency spectrum of a sampled signal when components with frequencies too great to be analysed with the sampling interval being used contribute to the amplitude of lower frequency components
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18. aliasing
    the distortion caused by sampling a signal at an inappropriate rate and which results in the overlapping of the sidebands around the harmonics of the sampling frequency in the spectrum of the sample signal
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19. aliasing
    a picture impairment arising because the number of display elements is insufficient to correctly represent the desired image
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20. aliasing
    the distortion caused by sampling a signal at an inappropriate rate and which results in the overlapping of the sidebands around the harmonics of the sampling frequency in the spectrum of the sampled signal
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21. Aliasing
    In audio engineering, aliasing is a form of distortion which can occur during the conversion of analog signals into digital. If the input signal is more than one half the sampling rate, only portions of the signal will be present when the system samples the waveform. A false image of the waveform ba...
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22. Aliasing
    When sampling an analogue signal, the sampling frequency must be at least twice that of the highest frequency component of the analogue signal (Niquist Frequency). If not, the sampling process is inaccurate because there are insufficient points to describe each cycle of the waveform. This results in...
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