ether in French

ether in French

What does "ether" mean?

1. noun A sweet-smelling, highly flammable liquid once widely used as an anaesthetic and still used as a solvent.
   "Doctors once used ether to put patients to sleep before surgery."
2. noun The clear upper sky or heavens, especially in older or poetic usage; historically, a hypothetical substance once thought to fill space.
   "The poem describes stars scattered across the ether."
3. noun The airwaves or broadcast medium through which radio, TV, or digital signals travel.
   "The message vanished into the digital ether."

ether in a sentence

• Doctors once used ether to put patients to sleep before surgery.
• The poem describes stars scattered across the ether.
• The message vanished into the digital ether.

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