aspect
pronunciation
How to pronounce aspect in British English:
UK [ˈæspekt]
How to pronounce aspect in American English:
US [ˈæspekt]
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- Noun:
- a distinct feature or element in a problem
- a characteristic to be considered
- the visual percept of a region
- the beginning or duration or completion or repetition of the action of a verb
- the expression on a person's face
Word Origin
- aspect (n.)
- late 14c., an astrological term, "relative position of the planets as they appear from earth" (i.e., how they "look at" one another); later also "way of viewing things," from Latin aspectus "a seeing, looking at, sight, view, countenance, appearance," from past participle of aspicere "to look at," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + specere "to look" (see scope (n.1)). Meaning "the look one wears, the appearance of things" attested by early 15c.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Curbing climate change is an aspect of national security .
- 2. Assuming that trend continues , one aspect of airliner pricing looks clear : discounts will keep growing .
- 3. The gold mania was just one aspect of a broader flight from financial to hard assets .
- 4. This means that apart from the aspect ratio at times all videos for the ipod will also run the psp .
- 5. They can also extract documentation from the model , thereby providing a different aspect of communication .