aspect
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aspect/ˈaspekt/
▶noun
- 1 a particular part or feature.
■ a particular appearance or quality.
- 2 the positioning of a building in a particular direction.
■ the side of a building facing a particular direction.
- 3 Grammar a category or form of a verb which expresses a feature of the action related to time, such as completion or duration.
- 4 Astrology any of a number of particular angular relationships between one celestial body or point on the ecliptic and another.
– derivatives
aspectual adjective.
aspectual adjective.
– origin ME: from L. aspectus, from aspicere ‘look at’.
'aspect' also found in these Oxford entries:
aspect ratio
- censor
- clear
- cover
- department
- detail
- devil
- dimension
- diopside
- downside
- edutainment
- element
- everything
- face
- facet
- feature
- flip side
- half
- historicism
- hue
- human interest
- imperfective
- inchoative
- inform
- life
- live
- melody
- micromanage
- name
- negative
- overspecialize
- pan
- perfective
- periphery
- persona
- progressive
- quincunx
- quintessence
- quintile
- respect
- revolve
- self-mortification
- sextile
- Shekinah
- side
- slur
- square
- sub specie aeternitatis
- term
