alias

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Your alias will be your domain name that is forwarded to your host web. me.com.

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  1. noun An assumed name: The swindler worked under various aliases.
  2. noun Electronics A false signal in telecommunication links from beats between signal frequency and sampling frequency.
  3. adverb Also known as; otherwise: Johnson, alias Johns.

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  • Each connection is assigned an alias which is saved in the dbxconnections. ini file (dbExpress 'configuration file). —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Your alias will be your domain name that is forwarded to your host web. me.com. —  Discussions: Message List - root
  • My email address has been changed so I can't reset the password and they're posting under my alias which is pretty worrying. —  Digital Point Forums
  • This means at another time but then it mutated to AKA Also known as … say for example my alias which is The Ca t. —  Now What, Cat?
  • Oh! I see you've been wasting your tin on cigars--alias, rolled cabbage-leaves. —  Eric, or Little by Little
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  1. Latin aliās, otherwise, at another time, from feminine accusative pl. of alius, other; see al-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Latin aliās, at another time; in post-Augustan period, at another time or place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise; feminine accusative plural (cf. English else, a genitive singular form, from same original) of alius, other: see alien.
  2. from alias, adv.
 

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