aspect🔊

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 color light (or mechanical) signal as displayed to the driver. With three-aspect color 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.

(astrology, of a planet) To have a particular aspect or type of aspect.

(Wicca) To channel a divine being.

(obsolete) To look at.