Aorist (from the, aóristos, "without horizon, unbounded")'s an aspect or, used more specifically, a verb tense in some Indo-European languages such as Greek. The term's also used for unrelated concepts in some other languages, such as Turkish. In contrast to the imperfective aspect, which refers to an action as continual or repeated, or to the perfect aspect, which calls attention to the consequences generated by an action, the aorist aspect has no such implications, but refers to an action… (
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