Definitions for ether

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ether e·ther

Spelling: [ee-ther]

IPA: /ˈi θər/

Ether is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in ether (eehrt).

Definitions for ether

noun

1. Also called diethyl ether, diethyl oxide, ethyl ether, ethyl oxide, sulfuric ether. Chemistry, Pharmacology. a colorless, highly volatile, flammable liquid, C 4 H 10 O, having an aromatic odor and sweet, burning taste, derived from ethyl alcohol by the action of sulfuric acid: used as a solvent and, formerly, as an inhalant anesthetic.
2. Chemistry. (formerly) one of a class of compounds in which two organic groups are attached directly to an oxygen atom, having the general formula ROR.
3. the upper regions of space; the clear sky; the heavens.
4. the medium supposed by the ancients to fill the upper regions of space.
5. Physics. a hypothetical substance supposed to occupy all space, postulated to account for the propagation of electromagnetic radiation through space.

Origin of ether

1350-1400; Middle English Latin aethēr the upper air, pure air, ether Greek aithḗr, akin to aíthein to glow, burn, Old English ād funeral pyre, Latin aestus heat

Examples for ether

Users post a photo, add a question, and send it off into the ether to be answered.

“It almost feels sometimes that Matilda is out in the ether,” she says.

In this way the density of the ether has been deduced by noting the velocity of light.

The lead salts not soluble in ether were decomposed by acid.

Gravitation then is a property belonging to matter and not to ether.

But that particular sword of Damocles has floated off into the ether.

We would lack a human face as our symbol; we would exist in the ether of ideas with no concrete stake in the ground to tether us.

There is no phenomenon in the ether that is comparable with this.

A week does not pass without another set of economic numbers blasting through the ether.

How these motions are communicated to the ether matters not.