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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

醚 is used for these senses in English:

  • ether (uncountable, organic compound) Diethyl ether (C4H10O), an organic compound with a sweet odour used in the past as an anaesthetic.

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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