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Definition: A.k.a. |
A.k.a.Adverb1. As known or named at another time or place; "Mr. Smith, alias Mr. Lafayette". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: A.k.a. |
| Specialty definitions using "a.k.a.": lots of MIPS but no I/O ♦ Plasma Window. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | A.k.a. Cassius Clay (1970) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Thomson piano wire sounding machine as mounted on USS TUSCARORA This machine was invented by Sir William Thomson, a.k.a. Lord Kelvin Made use of heavy weight and piano wire - line paid out until weight hit bottom This machine revolutionized deepsea sounding Variations would be used for over 50 years. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| "A.k.a." is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "A.k.a." is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (common) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "a.k.a."; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 或稱 (also called, also known as). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | a.k.a.ay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters ".-.-.-a-a-k" | |
-4 letters: aa, ka. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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