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aspect
/ˈæˌspɛkt/
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What does aspect mean?
noun
- Any specific feature, part, or element of something.
- The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.
- The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.
More meanings (14)
noun
- A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something.
- One's appearance or expression.
- 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.
- Prospect; outlook.
- 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.
- The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope.
- The personified manifestation of a deity that represents one or more of its characteristics or functions.
- In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.
- 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.
- (obsolete) The act of looking at something; gaze.
- (obsolete) Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
verb
- To have a particular aspect or type of aspect.
- To channel a divine being.
- (obsolete) To look at.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈæˌspɛkt/
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They live like insects, absorbed in petty activities that seem to have nothing to do with any genial aspect of human life.
Until late in the afternoon the Jungfrau’s aspect is that of a spotless desert of snow set upon edge against the sky.
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The reflected radiance served to show, pretty distinctly, the aspect and arrangement of the room which Hepzibah entered, after descending the stairs.
I thought I should have seen some Hercules, A second Hector, for his grim aspect, And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs.
A great shadow, preceded by a wild light, slowly advanced, appearing still larger through the mist, which gave it a fantastic aspect.