alias

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. At another time; in another place; in other circumstances; otherwise. It is used chiefly in judicial proceedings to connect the different names assumed by a person who attempts to conceal his true name and pass under a fictitious one: thus, Simpson alias Smith means a person calling himself at one time or one place Smith, at another Simpson.
2. n. An assumed name; another name.
3. n. [From words in the writ, Sicut alias præcipimus, as we at another time command.] In law, a second writ or execution issued when the first has failed to serve its purpose. Also used adjectively: as, an alias execution.

Wiktionary

1. adv. Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called.
2. adv. law Used to connect the different names of a person who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.
3. n. Another name; an assumed name.
4. n. law A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
5. n. online gaming An abbreviation that replaces a string of in-game commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks.
6. n. signal processing An spurious signal generated as a technological artifact.
7. v. computing To assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.
8. v. signal processing to become indistinguishable

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adv. Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful.
2. adv. At another time.
3. n. A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
4. n. Another name; an assumed name.

WordNet 3.0

1. adv. as known or named at another time or place
2. n. a name that has been assumed temporarily