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イーサー — meaning in English

īsā

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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

イーサー is used for these senses in English:

  • ether (uncountable, physics, historical) Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: a substance once thought to fill all unoccupied space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy; its existence was disproved by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment and the theory of relativity propounded by Albert Einstein (1879–1955).

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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