How to pronounce “aspect”

Meaning

• [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. [from 16th c.]
• 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. [from 19th c.]
• (astrology) The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope. [from 14th c.]
• (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. [14th–19th c.]
• (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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