aspect vs gnomon

aspect

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

  • 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. 

gnomon

noun
  • An object such as a pillar used by an observer to calculate the meridian altitude of the sun (that is, the altitude of the sun when it reaches the observer's meridian), for the purpose of determining the observer's latitude. 

  • A plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram. 

  • An object such as a pillar or a rod that is used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it, especially the pointer on a sundial. 

  • The index of the hour circle of a globe. 

  • A number representing the increment between two figurate numbers (“numbers equal to the numbers of dots in geometric figures formed of dots”). 

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