Meaning

• 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