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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: AEther \[AE]"ther\, n. See {Ether}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Aether n 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}]
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