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Aspect vs Proportion - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between aspect and proportion

is that aspect is the way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective while proportion is proportion.

aspect

English

(wikipedia aspect)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.
  • The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.
  • A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something
  • One's appearance or expression.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Dryden)
  • serious in aspect
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
  • , chapter=4, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect .}}
  • * 2009 , (Hilary Mantel), (Wolf Hall) , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 145:
  • It is Stephen Gardiner, black and scowling, his aspect in no way improved by his trip to Rome.
  • 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.
  • Prospect; outlook.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Evelyn)
  • This town affords a good aspect toward the hill from whence we descended.
  • (grammar) A grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal temporal flow of the event the verb describes, or whether the speaker views the event from outside as a whole, or from within as it is unfolding.
  • (astrology) The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope.
  • (Milton)
  • (obsolete) The act of looking at something; gaze.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) Sir (Francis Bacon)
  • The basilisk killeth by aspect .
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) Sir (Walter Scott)
  • His aspect was bent on the ground.
  • (obsolete) Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (Thomas Burnet)
  • the true aspect of a world lying in its rubbish
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars)
  • the aspect of affairs
  • (computing, programming) In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.
  • Synonyms

    * (visual expression) blee, appearance, look

    Hyponyms

    (Grammatical aspect) * (grammar) aorist aspect, iterative aspect, perfective aspect, imperfective aspect, semelfactive aspect, progressive aspect, perfect aspect

    Derived terms

    * aspect ratio * aspectual

    proportion

    English

    Noun

  • (lb) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.
  • *
  • *:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion —which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital,!”
  • (lb) Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.
  • (lb) Proper or equal share.
  • *(Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
  • *:Let the womendo the same things in their proportions and capacities.
  • The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.
  • :
  • *(Lancelot Ridley) (ca.1500-1576)
  • *:The image of Christ, made after his own proportion .
  • *Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
  • *:Formed in the best proportions of her sex.
  • * (1800-1859)
  • *:Documents are authentic and facts are true precisely in proportion to the support which they afford to his theory.
  • A statement of equality between two ratios.
  • Size.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 20, author=Nathan Rabin
  • , title= TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992) , work=The Onion AV Club , passage=What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods?}}

    Derived terms

    * in proportion * proportional * proportionally * proportionate * proportioner

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (arts) To set or render in proportion.