aspect
IPA: ˈæspɛkt
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.
- 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.
- (grammar) 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.
- (astrology) The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope.
- (religion, mythology) The personified manifestation of a deity that represents one or more of its characteristics or functions.
- (obsolete) The act of looking at something; gaze.
- (obsolete) Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
- (programming) In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.
- (rail transport) The visual indication of a colour light (or mechanical) 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.
verb
- (astrology, of a planet) To have a particular aspect or type of aspect.
- (Wicca) To channel a divine being.
- (obsolete) To look at.
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Examples of "aspect" in Sentences
- The aspect of the building is austere.
- This is the aspect of a disembodied soul.
- They are qualitative aspects of the science.
- It's a potpourri of aspects loosely bundled.
- She faces all aspects of life optimistically.
- It was this aspect of it which caused the furor.
- It is for safety, security and wholesomeness aspects.
- Be thankful for the positive aspects of the situation.
- I may not candidly share all aspects of that opinion with the community.
- He liked the thriller aspect of the Reaping script above the horror aspect.
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