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In linguistics, aspect is a grammatical category that expresses how an action, event, or state, as denoted by a verb, extends over time.

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  1. aspect:

    n Any specific feature, part, or element of something.

    n The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.

    n The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.

    n A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something.

    n One's appearance or expression.

    n 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.

    n Prospect; outlook.

    n (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.

    n (astrology) The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope.

    n (religion, mythology) The personified manifestation of a deity that represents one or more of its characteristics or functions.

    n (obsolete) The act of looking at something; gaze.

    n (obsolete) Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.

    n (programming) In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.

    n (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.

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

    v (Wicca) To channel a divine being.

    v (obsolete) To look at.


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