aspect

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. Any specific feature, part, or element of something.
2. The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.
3. The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.
4. A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something.
5. One's appearance or expression.
6. 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.
7. Prospect; outlook.
8. 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.
9. The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope.
10. The personified manifestation of a deity that represents one or more of its characteristics or functions.
11. (obsolete) The act of looking at something; gaze.
12. (obsolete) Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
13. In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.
14. 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

1. To have a particular aspect or type of aspect.
2. To channel a divine being.
3. (obsolete) To look at.

Concepts

aspect

air

apparence

allure

spectacle

vue

facette

face

côté

flanc

situation

état

mine

convenance

direction

aspect du visage

contenance

phase

image

terme

expression

panorama

vista

point de vue

figure

visage

Coupé comme

as‧pect

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈæspɛkt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Middle English aspect, from Latin aspectus (“look, sight; appearance”), from aspiciō (“see; catch sight of; inspect”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + speciō (“look, look at, behold; observe”).