aspect

  • (noun): Any specific feature, part, or element of something.
  • (noun): The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.
  • (noun): The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.
  • (noun): A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something.
  • (noun): One's appearance or expression.
  • (noun): 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.
  • (noun): Prospect; outlook.
  • (noun): (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.
  • (noun): The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope.
  • (noun): The personified manifestation of a deity that represents one or more of its characteristics or functions.
  • (noun): The act of looking at something; gaze.
  • (noun): Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
  • (noun): In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.
  • (noun): 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): (of a planet) To have a particular aspect or type of aspect.
  • (verb): To channel a divine being.
  • (verb): To look at.
  • Japan's aging population is an important aspect of its economy.
  • The house has a southern aspect, i.e. a position which faces the south.