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Aspect

//ˈæspɛkt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any specific feature, part, or element of something.

    "Japan's aging population is an important aspect of its economy."

  2. 2
    the feelings expressed on a person's face wordnet
  3. 3
    The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.

    "Given the limitations of planar representation[…] The painter is constantly forced to choose one aspect over the other."

  4. 4
    a characteristic to be considered wordnet
  5. 5
    The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.

    "in certain aspects [ = in certain respects]"

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  1. 6
    a distinct feature or element in a problem wordnet
  2. 7
    A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something.
  3. 8
    the visual percept of a region wordnet
  4. 9
    One's appearance or expression.

    "Art thou but Captaine of a thouſand horſe, That by Characters grauen in thy browes, And by thy martiall face and ſtout aſpect, Deſeru’ſt to haue the leading of an hoſte?"

  5. 10
    the beginning or duration or completion or repetition of the action of a verb wordnet
  6. 11
    Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass.

    "The house has a southern aspect, i.e. a position which faces the south."

  7. 12
    Prospect; outlook.

    "This town affords a good aspect toward the hill from whence we descended ; nor does it deceive us ; for it is handsomely built […]"

  8. 13
    A grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal temporal flow of the event which the verb describes, or whether the speaker views the event from outside as a whole, or from within as it is unfolding.
  9. 14
    The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope.

    "[…] To the blanc moon / Her office they prescribed; to the other five / Their planetary motions, and aspects, / In sextile, square, and trine, and opposite, / Of noxious efficacy, and when to join / In synod unbenign; and taught the fix'd / their influence malignant when to shower, / Which of them rising with the sun, or falling / Should prove tempestuous: […]"

  10. 15
    The personified manifestation of a deity that represents one or more of its characteristics or functions.

    "The Mother Goddess in her many manifestations is termed Shakti, the female energy in creation, and worshipped as the supreme female aspect of Brahman."

  11. 16
    The act of looking at something; gaze. obsolete

    "The tradition is no less ancient, that the basilisk killeth by aspect ; and that the wolf, if he see a man first, by aspect striketh a man hoarse."

  12. 17
    Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view. obsolete

    "1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth Vol 1, Chapter IX. They are both in my judgment the image or picture of a great Ruine, and have the true aspect of a World lying in its rubbish."

  13. 18
    In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.
  14. 19
    The visual indication of railway signal as displayed to the driver. With three-aspect colour light signals this would be red, yellow or green, and on four-aspect signals, double-yellow also; a two-aspect signal displays red or green.

    "It was in this work [on the Southern Railway] that the four-aspect system of indications, using red, yellow, double yellow, and green, was first installed. […][page 229, photo caption] Three-aspect colour-light signal with three-way junction indicator, Bow Junction, Eastern Region"

Verb
  1. 1
    To have a particular aspect or type of aspect.
  2. 2
    To channel a divine being.
  3. 3
    To look at. obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English aspect, from Latin aspectus (“look, sight; appearance”), from aspiciō (“see; catch sight of; inspect”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + speciō (“look, look at, behold; observe”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English aspect, from Latin aspectus (“look, sight; appearance”), from aspiciō (“see; catch sight of; inspect”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + speciō (“look, look at, behold; observe”).

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