alternate name
See Also: alias
[geocoding] A name for an address element, usually a street name, that is different from the official or most common name. For example, a highway number might be an alternate name for a street name.
An optional geocoding technique, an alternate name table can be used to account for street segments that are referred to with more than one name.
Paleontologists sometimes refer to a sequence of 80 or so faunal stages. Fauna is also an alternate name for Bona Dea, Ops, Terra and Tellus, ancient Roman goddesses. The name Marica is also used.
The standard name for people from Earth is Earthling, although Terran, Gaian, and Earther are alternate names that have been used in Science fiction.
The rectangular result is the very simple cylindrical equidistant projection (equidistant only along meridians and two parallels), having a multitude of alternate names.
 See also: Map, Latitude, Image, Navigation, Area
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