aliasing.

A distortion in sampled information in which distinct signals or patterns become indistinguishable under the sampling process.

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Words that belong together

• sampling aliasing
• image aliasing

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Aliasing made the moving spokes appear to reverse.

The test signal exposed aliasing in the sampled data.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.