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Aether : (noun)
1: personification of the sky or upper air breathed by the
Olympians; son of Erebus and Night or of Chaos and
Darkness [syn: Aether]
2: a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to
support the propagation of electromagnetic waves [syn: ether]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Aether : \[AE]"ther\, n.
See Ether.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Ether \E"ther\, n. [L. aether, Gr. ?, fr. ? to light up, kindle,
burn, blaze; akin to Skr. idh, indh, and prob. to E. idle:
cf. F. ['e]ther.] [Written also [ae]ther.]
1. (Physics) A medium of great elasticity and extreme
tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of
solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of
transmission of light and heat; hence often called
luminiferous ether.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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