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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation also known as

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A climbing epiphyte of the myrtle family, Metrosideros scandens.

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  • preposition also known as

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb as known or named at another time or place

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  • AKA has been supplanting "i.e." in informal writing for some time, but has also been attested in more professional writing, like this clip from the Scientific American blog:

    "There's also the simple fact that one can drill to release a transportable commodity worth roughly $100 per barrel (aka oil) or one can drill to produce a commodity that must be instantaneously transported and consumed at a value of roughly 10 cents per kilowatt-hour (aka geothermal electricity)."

    http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=stop-mining-for-oil-and-coal-start-2011-06-20

    June 21, 2011

  • Professional writing is not always good writing.

    June 21, 2011

  • Aka is not aka i.e, i.e. i.e isn't aka aka.

    In the sense quoted by billprice, referring to a simple subject or object, aka works fine. But in the broader sense of "i.e." ("that is to say..." referring to a proposition or conclusion) - a "thought" rather than a "thing" - aka is no alternative.

    Better, then, to stick to aka's original meaning, i.e. alias.

    June 21, 2011

  • The CDC definition clearly refers to aka (although the modern sources I can find call Metrosideros perforata by this name).

    September 27, 2011