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noun
1.
appearance to the eye or mind; look: the physical aspect of the country.
2.
nature; quality; character: the superficial aspect of the situation.
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part; feature; phase: That is the aspect of the problem that interests me most.
5.
EXPANDfacial expression; countenance: He wore an aspect of gloom. Hers was an aspect of happy optimism.
6.
bearing; air; mien: warlike in aspect.
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view commanded; exposure: The house has a southern aspect.
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the side or surface facing a given direction: the dorsal aspect of a fish; the northern aspect of the house.
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Grammar.
a.
b.
a set of syntactic devices, as in the English perfect with have in I have gone, with functions similar to such inflections.
c.
any of the members or instances of these categories or sets: the Latin perfect aspect; the Russian imperfect aspect.
d.
the meaning of, or meaning typical of, such a category or construction.
e.
such categories or constructions, or their meanings collectively.
10.
Astrology.
a.
the angular distance between two points as seen from the earth, primarily derived by dividing the 360 degrees of the zodiac by the integers 1 through 12.
b.
the influence of any two planets or groups of planets located at such points.
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COLLAPSEArchaic. a look; glance.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin aspectus appearance, visible form, the action of looking at, equivalent to aspec- (variant stem of aspicere to observe, look at; a- a-5 + -spicere, combining form of specere to see) + -tus suffix of v. action
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin aspectus appearance, visible form, the action of looking at, equivalent to aspec- (variant stem of aspicere to observe, look at; a- a-5 + -spicere, combining form of specere to see) + -tus suffix of v. action
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Example Sentences
- World may be flat in some aspects but it is full of spikes.
- There were also large differences in soil properties between contrasting aspects.
- But some of the year's greatest joys weren't new products, but aspects of new products.
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
aspect
late 14c., an astronomical term, "relative position of the planets as they appear," from L. aspectus "seeing, looking, appearance," from pp. of aspicere "to look at," from ad- "to" + specere "to look" (see scope (1)). Meaning "the look one wears, the appearance of things" arose 1590s.
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Medical Dictionary
aspect as·pect (ās'pěkt)
n.
An appearance or look.
The side of an object that faces in a particular direction.
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