AETHER
Dictionary entry overview: What does Aether mean? • AETHER (noun)
The noun AETHER has 2 senses:
1. personification of the sky or upper air breathed by the Olympians; son of Erebus and night or of Chaos and darkness
2. a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves
Familiarity information: AETHER used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• AETHER (noun)
Meaning:
Personification of the sky or upper air breathed by the Olympians; son of Erebus and night or of Chaos and darkness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Aether" is a kind of...):
Greek deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks)
Meaning:
A medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
aether; ether
Hypernyms ("aether" is a kind of...):
medium (an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication)
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