aspect

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Singular
aspect

Plural
aspects

Aspect is on the Academic Vocabulary List.
  1. (countable) An aspect is a view of something, often something non-physical, such as an idea or a problem.
    In Chapter 2 we look at processor size. In Chapter 3 we consider other aspects of processor design.
  2. (grammar) In English grammar, aspect is expressed as the form of a verb group showing the speaker's view of whether the situation the clause describes is complete or happens again and again.
    I go and I'm going are both in the present tense, but I'm going is in the progressive aspect as well.

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