| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | a·li·as |
| PRONUNCIATION: |    l - s, lys |
| NOUN: | 1. An assumed name: The swindler worked under various aliases. 2. Electronics A false signal in telecommunication links from beats between signal frequency and sampling frequency. | | ADVERB: | Also known as; otherwise: Johnson, alias Johns. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin alis, otherwise, at another time, from feminine accusative pl. of alius, other. See al-1 in Appendix I.
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