AETHER

ether, aether

(noun) a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves

Aether

(noun) personification of the sky or upper air breathed by the Olympians; son of Erebus and night or of Chaos and darkness

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

aether (countable and uncountable, plural aethers)

Alternative spelling of ether

Anagrams

• Heater, eather, hearte, heater, hereat, reheat

Etymology

Proper noun

Aether

(Greek god) One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of light, brother-husband of Hemera and grandson of Chaos.

Anagrams

• Heater, eather, hearte, heater, hereat, reheat

Source: Wiktionary


Æ"ther, n.

Definition: See Ether.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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