shadowing ⇝

aliasing

<jargon>

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.

<hardware>

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.

Last updated: 1998-03-13

Nearby terms:

Algorithmic Test Case Generation ♦ ALGY ♦ ALIAS ♦ alias ♦ aliasing ♦ aliasing bug ♦ Alice ♦ alife ♦ A-Life

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