Alice

plural Alices

1. countableuncountableA female given name from the Germanic languages popular in England since the Middle Ages.

   Party leader Alice Weidel has already hailed the coalition’s collapse as a “liberation” for Germany.

   2024 November 7, Sophie Tanno, Sebastian Shukla and Olesya Dmitracova, “Germany’s normally stable government has collapsed. Here’s why”, in CNN

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   "My name is Alice, but—" "It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?" "Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. "Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh, "my name means the shape I am—and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."

   1871, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, Chapter 6

   She was heavenly to look at, and graceful, both in and out of water. She was a sculptress. She was christened 'Alice', but she used to deny that she was really an Alice. I agreed. Everybody agreed. Sometime in a dream maybe I will find out what her real name was.

   1968, Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House, Delacorte Press, page xiv

2. countableuncountablecomputingThe person or system that sends a message to another person or system conventionally known as Bob.

   Alice opens her lantern, Bob opens his the instant he sees Alice's, and Alice notes the time T that passes between the moment she opens hers and the moment she sees the light returning to her from Bob's.

   2009, N. David Mermin, It's About Time: Understanding Einstein's Relativity, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 19

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   Alice sends the message, "I am Alice," to Bob. Bob chooses a nonce, N and sends it to Alice. Alice encrypts the nonce using Alice and Bob's symmetric secret key, K#95;#123;A-B#125;, and sends the encrypted nonce, K#95;#123;A-B#125;(N) back to Bob.

   1978, V.S. Bagad, I.A. Dhotre, Computer Networks, Technical Publications, →ISBN

   Synonyms: Party A

3. Australiacountableoftenslanguncountablewith definite articleThe city of Alice Springs, Australia.

   In 1892 my Chinese grandfather lived in Alice.

   2003, Janet Judy McIntyre-Mills, quoting Olive Veverbrants, Critical systemic praxis for social and environmental justice, page 27

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   At that point in my second visit to the Alice, I'd been there only a day.[…] they're doing Australia in two weeks, with a few days each for Sydney, the Alice and the Rock, Kakadu and Cairns.

   2002, Sylvia Lawson, “Budgerigars, and Positions of Ignorance”, in How Simone de Beauvoir died in Australia: stories and essays, page 17

   "Don't waste yer time in The Alice, get out and see the country — that's what yer 'ere for."

   2004, Larry Habegger, Travelers' Tales Australia: True Stories, page 7

4. countableuncountableA locality in the Clarence Valley council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
5. countableuncountableA city in North Dakota.
6. countableuncountableA city, the county seat of Jim Wells County, Texas.

1. USabbreviationacronymuncountablegovernmentAcronym of All-purpose lightweight individual carrying equipment.
2. abbreviationacronymuncountableartificial intelligenceAcronym of Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity.

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   After ALICE was introduced on Pandorabots’s platform in the early 2000s, one of its interlocutors was the film director Spike Jonze. He would later cite their conversation as the inspiration for his movie “Her,” which follows a lonely man as he falls in love with his artificial intelligence operating system.

   2025 November 17, Lauren Kunze, “The Sad and Dangerous Reality Behind ‘Her’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC