Aliasing

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  aliasing
       
          1.  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.  (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.
       
          (1998-03-13)