aspect

English

/ˈæspɛkt/

noun
Definitions
  • 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) 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) 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.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aspectus (appearance, sight, look, looking at something) root from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- (look, see).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*speḱ-

Gloss

look, see

Concept
Semantic Field

Sense perception

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

Emoji

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