What is the meaning of Ether?

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

  1. The medium breathed by human beings; the air.
  2. The sky, the heavens; the void, nothingness.

The medium breathed by human beings; the air.

The sky, the heavens; the void, nothingness.

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.

Starting fluid.

To viciously humiliate or insult.

Alternative form of edder

Alternative letter-case form of Ether

air, broadcasting

ether (organic compound containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups)

ether (fifth element of Aristotelian natural philosophy, supposed to be the building block of the heavens)

ether (luminiferous aether, medium in which electromagnetic waves were supposed to occur)

Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of éter.

ether (a mystical substance formerly thought to fill the upper atmosphere, firmament, the sky, the heavens)

luminiferous aether (a substance formerly thought to fill all unoccupied space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without interacting with them itself)

ether, diethyl ether (C4H10O)

an ether (one of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups)

Source: wiktionary.org