Aspect or Aspects may refer to:
Companies
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Aspect Capital
Aspect Capital is a London-based investment manager that applies a systematic and quantitative approach to investment management. According to the Financial Times, Aspect uses "technology and complex mathematical models to power computers that ...
, a London-based investment manager
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Aspect Co., a Japanese video game company
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Aspect Software, an American call center technology and customer experience company
Literature
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''Aspect'' (magazine), a biannual DVD magazine showcasing new media art
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''Aspects'' (novel), a fantasy novel by John M. Ford
Music
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Aspects (band), a hip hop group from Bristol, England, UK
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''Aspects'' (Benny Carter album), a 1959 album
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''Aspects'' (The Eleventh House album), a 1976 album by Larry Coryell and The Eleventh House
** "Aspects" , the title track of the album
Other uses
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Alain Aspect
Alain Aspect (; born 15 June 1947) is a French physicist noted for his experimental work on quantum entanglement.
Aspect was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, "for experiments with Quantum e ...
(born 1947), French physicist and Nobel laureate
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Aspect (computer programming)
In computer programming, an aspect of a program is a feature linked to many other parts of the program, but is not related to the program's primary function. An aspect crosscuts the program's core concerns, therefore violating its separation of ...
, a feature linked to many parts of a program but not necessarily the primary function of the program
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Aspect (geography)
In physical geography and physical geology, aspect (also known as exposure) is the compass direction or azimuth that a terrain surface faces.
For example, a slope landform on the eastern edge of the Rockies toward the Great Plains is desc ...
, the compass direction that a slope faces
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Aspect (religion) Aspect is a term used across several religions and in theology to describe a particular manifestation or conception of a deity or other divine being. Depending on the religion, these might be disjoint or overlapping parts, or methods of perceiving ...
, a particular manifestation of a deity
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Astrological aspect
In astrology, an aspect is an angle that Planets in astrology, planets make to each other in the horoscope; as well as to the Ascendant, Midheaven, descendant (astrology), Descendant, Imum coeli, Lower Midheaven, and other points of astrological ...
, an angle the planets have to each other
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Grammatical aspect
In linguistics, aspect is a grammatical category that expresses how a verbal action, event, or state, extends over time. For instance, perfective aspect is used in referring to an event conceived as bounded and unitary, without reference t ...
, in linguistics, a component of the conjugation of a verb, having to do with the internal temporal flow of an event
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Lexical aspect
In linguistics, the lexical aspect, situation type or Aktionsart (, plural ''Aktionsarten'' ) of an event is part of the way in which that event is structured in relation to time. For example, the English verbs ''arrive'' and ''run'' differ in ...
, in linguistics, a distinction among different kinds of verb according to their relation to time
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Aspect, the orientation of a map projection
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Aspect (trade union)
Aspect was a former trade union in the United Kingdom for professionals working in children's services. History
The union was founded in 1919 by four school inspectors as the National Association of Inspectors of Schools and Educational Organis ...
, a trade union in the United Kingdom
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Aspect, the visual appearance of a
railway signal
A railway signal is a visual display device that conveys instructions or provides warning of instructions regarding the driver's authority to proceed. The driver interprets the signal's indication and acts accordingly. Typically, a signal migh ...
used to indicate a particular condition or behavior
See also
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Aspect ratio (disambiguation)
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Aspec (disambiguation)
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