Aliasing

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  • noun. Visible or audible distortion introduced into digital information, such as images or audio signals, caused when a continuous line or transition is not smoothly captured or represented because of the low resolution or sampling rate of a digital medium.
  • noun. The appearance of jagged distortions in curves and diagonal lines in computer graphics.
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  • verb. Present participle of alias.
  • noun. Distortion caused by a low sampling rate, as Moire effect or stair-stepped edges.
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    "Remember that aliasing occurs when we resample a signal containing frequencies above the"
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