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aspect 1. Astrology any of several specific angular distances between two planets or a planet and the Ascendant or Midheaven measured, from the earth, in degrees along the ecliptic 2. Botany a. the compass direction to which a plant habitat is exposed, or the degree of exposure b. the effect of the seasons on the appearance of plants aspect [′a‚spekt] (architecture) The direction which a building faces with respect to the points of a compass. (astronomy) The apparent position of a celestial body relative to another; particularly, the apparent position of the moon or a planet relative to the sun. (civil engineering) Of railway signals, what the engineer sees when viewing the blades or lights in their relative positions or colors. (ecology) Seasonal appearance. (geology) The general appearance of a specific geologic entity or fossil assemblage as considered more or less apart from relations in time and space. The direction toward which a valley side or slope faces with respect to the compass or rays of the sun.
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| To the eyes of his matter-of-fact companions, the aspect of these coasts recalled rather the parceled-out land of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and where the Frenchman discovered traces of the heroes of fable, these Americans were marking the most favorable points for the establishment of stores in the interests of lunar commerce and industry. But it was especially the aspect of the three chief officers of the ship, the mates, which was most forcibly calculated to allay these colorless misgivings, and induce confidence and cheerfulness in every presentment of the voyage. The face is an object of curiosity for years or centuries, and by and by a boy is born whose features gradually assume the aspect of that portrait. |
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