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ether
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What does ether mean?
noun
- (literary) The medium breathed by human beings; the air.
- (literary) The sky, the heavens; the void, nothingness.
- The atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communications take place; cyberspace.
More meanings (11)
noun
- A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura.
- Diethyl ether (C₄H₁₀O), an organic compound with a sweet odour used in the past as an anaesthetic.
- Any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups.
- Starting fluid.
- Alternative letter-case form of Ether.
- A unit of the Ethereum digital currency, ETH.
- (historical) Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: The hypothetical substance permeating space, functioning as a medium for electromagnetic waves to propagate through, and which does not exert resistance to the movement of matter; its existence is incompatible with Einstein's theory of relativity; famously found to be undetectable by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment.
verb
- (slang) To viciously humiliate or insult.
- Alternative form of edder.
proper noun
- The god-personification of the bright, glowing upper air of heaven. He is the Roman counterpart of Aether.
- The ancient American prophet of Mormon theology who wrote the Book of Ether in the Book of Mormon.
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They were to them so many sandbanks upon that sea of ether which, less fortunate than sailors, they could not escape.
He had a notion that the nitrous oxide gas was dangerous, so on this occasion, as on all others, used ether.
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The most conspicuous property of the ether is its enormous elasticity, a property which we should not find in a frictionless fluid.
And it is not perhaps out of place here to speak of the taking of ether or any anaesthetic before an operation.
Science has demonstrated that while ether pervades everything the ether which is actually in a body is different from the ether outside it.