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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

aliasing shadowing 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)