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乙醚 — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • ether noun A sweet-smelling, highly flammable liquid once widely used as an anaesthetic and still used as a solvent.

Senses

乙醚 is used for these senses in English:

  • diethyl ether (organic compound) A clear, colorless, highly flammable liquid with a low boiling point and chemical formula CH3-CH2-O-CH2-CH3. Used as a solvent and in the past as a general anesthetic.
  • ether (uncountable, literary, or, poetic) The substance formerly supposed to fill the upper regions of the atmosphere above the clouds, in particular as a medium breathed by deities.

ether — full definition

  1. noun A sweet-smelling, highly flammable liquid once widely used as an anaesthetic and still used as a solvent.
  2. noun The clear upper sky or heavens, especially in older or poetic usage; historically, a hypothetical substance once thought to fill space.
  3. noun The airwaves or broadcast medium through which radio, TV, or digital signals travel.

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