Hypertext Webster Gateway: "aether"
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) 1.7 (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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