aether

Noun
Synonyms: ether

Open English WordNet

Noun (2)

  1. personification of the sky or upper air breathed by the Olympians; son of Erebus and night or of Chaos and darknessType of Greek deity
  2. a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic wavesSynonyms: etherType of medium
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Æ′ther (…), noun

See Ether.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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