aspect

Meanings

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.
• 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.
• The act of looking at something; gaze.
• Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
• 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 a colour light (or mechanical) signal as displayed to the driver. With colour light signals this would be red, yellow or green.

Verb

• To have a particular aspect or type of aspect.
• To channel a divine being.
• To look at.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• grammatical aspect, aorist aspect, iterative aspect, perfective aspect, imperfective aspect, semelfactive aspect, progressive aspect, perfect aspect; lexical aspect

Origin

• From Middle English aspect, from Latin aspectus ("look, sight; appearance"), from aspiciō, from ad- + speciō.