aspect

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Hifenizado como

as‧pect

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈæspɛkt/

Etimologia (Inglês)

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”).