ETHER
\ˈiːθə], \ˈiːθə], \ˈiː_θ_ə]\
Definitions of ETHER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a colorless volatile highly inflammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic
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the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies
By Princeton University
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A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether.
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Supposed matter above the air; the air itself.
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A light, volatile, mobile, inflammable liquid, (C2H5)2O, of a characteristic aromatic odor, obtained by the distillation of alcohol with sulphuric acid, and hence called also sulphuric ether. It is powerful solvent of fats, resins, and pyroxylin, but finds its chief use as an anaesthetic. Called also ethyl oxide.
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Any similar oxide of hydrocarbon radicals; as, amyl ether; valeric ether.
By Oddity Software
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A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether.
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Supposed matter above the air; the air itself.
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A light, volatile, mobile, inflammable liquid, (C2H5)2O, of a characteristic aromatic odor, obtained by the distillation of alcohol with sulphuric acid, and hence called also sulphuric ether. It is powerful solvent of fats, resins, and pyroxylin, but finds its chief use as an anaesthetic. Called also ethyl oxide.
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Any similar oxide of hydrocarbon radicals; as, amyl ether; valeric ether.
By Noah Webster.
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A mobile, very volatile, highly flammable liquid used as an inhalation anesthetic and as a solvent for waxes, fats, oils, perfumes, alkaloids, and gums. It is mildly irritating to skin and mucous membranes.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The upper purer air; a liquid anesthetic; the medium through which the rays of light and heat are transmitted.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Volatile anesthetic, usually preferred to chloroform.
By William R. Warner
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The clear, upper air: the subtile medium supposed to fill all space: a light, volatile, inflammable fluid.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A colorless volatile liquid, used as an anesthetic.
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A supposed medium filling all space, and transmitting the vibrations of light, heat, and electricity.
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The upper air.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Aeher, Aether sulphuricus-e. Acetic, see Aether-e. Acitique, see Aether sulphuricusÂ-e. Azoteux, see Aether sulphuricus-e. Azoteux alcoolise, Spiritus aetheris nitrici.
By Robley Dunglison
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The subtle fluid believed to fill all space.
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Ethyl oxid, (C2H5)2O, volatile liquid used as an anesthetic, stimulant, anodyne, and solvent.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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In physics, a supposititious medium of extreme tenuity pervading all space, whose vibrations serve, according to the undulatory theory, for the transmission of luminous, thermal, and electrical impulses.
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A volatile liquid containing not less than 96 per cent, ethyl oxid [U. S. Ph] or 92 per cent. [Br. Ph.].
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Primarily, any medium of extreme tenuity.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe