Aether

Word AETHER
Character 6
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈiː.θə/

Definitions and meanings of "Aether"

What do we mean by aether?

The substance formerly supposed to fill the upper regions of the atmosphere above the clouds, in particular as a medium breathed by deities.

Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: a substance once thought to fill all unoccupied space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy; its existence was disproved by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment and the theory of relativity propounded by Albert Einstein (1879–1955).

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.

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.

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The word "aether" in example sentences

It will be shown that Clerk Maxwell also definitely affirms the atomicity of the aether, while Tyndall and Huyghens also use the term "_particles of aether_" over and over again. ❋ William George Hooper (N/A)

The aether carries the information, the aether is information. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Well, it seems he had been working for years at the ultimate problem of matter, and especially of that rarefied matter we call aether or space. ❋ John Buchan (1907)

To Lodge, the aether was a necessity, the cosmic glue without which "there can hardly be a material universe at all." ❋ Victor Stenger (2010)

There are similar differences in the air; of which the brightest part is called the aether, and the most turbid sort mist and darkness; and there are various other nameless kinds which arise from the inequality of the triangles. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Fresnel's so-called aether drag, we said it implied that every feasible first order experiment would fail. ❋ BANESH HOFFMANN (1968)

This latter kind of fire, which was known as aether, was the substance of the heavenly bodies, as it was also of the soul of animals and of the 'nature' of plants. ❋ St. George William Joseph Stock (N/A)

Darkness might then be defined as aether at rest; light as aether in motion. ❋ John Tyndall (1856)

Interesting how its allways that mysterious missing component ... wasnt there something called the aether that scientists looked for, for a long time. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For instance I think the Michaelson-Morley experiment which disproved the existence of the aether is a brilliant piece of thinking. ❋ Unknown (2009)

All space is permeated by an elastic medium or aether, which is capable of propagating vibrations. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Michelson-Morley showed that light waves weren't waves in an "aether" (or "ether") as some had postulated: they supposed that there was an ether underlying space, and that the earth was travelling through it at a non-trivial velocity. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Robert Borrow's lives in Bracebridge, a major source of magical energy, known as 'aether'. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The central fantastic device, a substance called "aether" that powers the magic of the world the way oil powers the magic of so many of our own lives, is a clever and broad enough one to allow some resonant hints of allegory. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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