aspect vs element

aspect

noun
  • The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view. 

  • 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. 

  • One's appearance or expression. 

  • 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. 

  • In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy. 

  • The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective. 

  • The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope. 

  • Any specific feature, part, or element of something. 

  • The personified manifestation of a deity that represents one or more of its characteristics or functions. 

  • The visual indication of a colour light (or mechanical) signal as displayed to the driver. With colour light signals this would be red, yellow or green. 

  • Prospect; outlook. 

  • A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something. 

verb
  • To have a particular aspect or type of aspect. 

  • To channel a divine being. 

element

noun
  • A place or state of being that an individual or object is best suited to. 

  • A small part of the whole. 

  • A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded as a violation of law only if each element can be proved. 

  • Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains. 

  • Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons. 

  • An orbital element; one of the parameters needed to uniquely specify a particular orbit. 

  • One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air. 

  • A basic, simple substance out of which something is made, raw material. 

  • The basic principles of a field of knowledge, basics, fundamentals, rudiments. 

  • One of the objects in a set. 

  • One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. 

  • A small but present amount of a quality, a hint. 

  • A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic. 

  • One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags. 

  • A factor, one of the conditions contributing to a result. 

  • Any of the teeth of a zip fastener. 

  • A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it. 

  • An infinitesimal interval of a quantity, a differential. 

  • The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion. 

  • One of the entries of a matrix. 

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