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Ether

noun

(Written also aether)

The fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies. Synonym: quintessence.

Any of a class of organic compounds that have two hydrocarbon groups linked by an oxygen atom.

A medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves. Synonym: aether.

A colorless volatile highly inflammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic. Synonyms: diethyl ether, divinyl ether, ethoxyethane, ethyl ether, vinyl ether.

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... headlong speed of nearly seventy thousand miles an hour through the ocean of fire-mist into which the shattered comet had been dissolved. Then this passed. The cool wind of night followed it, and the moon and stars shone down once more undimmed through the pure and cloudless ether. ...

— The World Peril of 1910 • George Griffith

... astronomer, Not thus idly dancing goes Flushing the eternal orchard with wild rose. She through ether burns Outpacing planetary earth, And ere two years triumphantly returns, And again wave-like swelling flows, And again her ...

— Poems New and Old • John Freeman

... of the stimulus of light on the retina is perceived in the brain as a visual sensation. The process by which the ether-wave disturbance causes this visual impulse is still very obscure. Two theories may be advanced ...

— Response in the Living and Non-Living • Jagadis Chunder Bose

... minute drops, upon the exterior surface of a glass or polished metal vessel by the cooling of a liquid contained in the vessel. If the liquid is water, it can be cooled by pieces of ice; if volatile like ether, by bubbling air through it. No deposit is formed by this process until the temperature is reduced to a point which, from that circumstance, has received a special name, although it depends upon the state of the air round the vessel. So generally accepted ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 - "Destructors" to "Diameter" • Various

... brooks. The oldest girls would ride on the horses' backs, chase quails, pluck the wayside flowers, occasionally watching the flight of paroquettes flashing like diamonds through the air, listening to the mockingbirds filling the woods with their exquisite songs, and inhaling as it were the ether of the immortal Gods, the ...

— The Gentleman from Everywhere • James Henry Foss

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