Transitive; common in general and computing usage.
Definitionen
To give an alternative name to; to designate by an alias. The witness was aliased as ‘John Doe’ in the court documents.
Computing: to create a shorthand or secondary reference to a command, file, or memory location. You can alias ‘git status’ to ‘gst’ in your shell configuration.
Used before a second name to mean ‘otherwise called’; invariable.
Definitionen
Used before another name to mean ‘also known as’ or ‘otherwise called’. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, alias Mark Twain, was a famous American writer.