# Type alias

* type

* We can use the `type` keyword to create aliases to existing types. This can help us in reading the code, but Rust does not do any enforcement.
* As you can see in the following example we can pass arguments to a "different" type as long as it is an alias to the same type.
* [type](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/keyword.type.html)

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