Ether

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The medium breathed by human beings; the air.

   “On Wings the Birds through Æther glide, / And Fiſhes cut with Fins the Tide.”

2. isim The sky, the heavens; the void, nothingness.

   “In barely the blink of an eye, the perfectly healthy Judy entered a permanent vegetative state. […] What haunted me was the idea that one moment you’re gazing at your 2-year-old in her playroom and the next, you, the mother, have been whisked off into the ether forever.”

3. isim Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: The hypothetical substance permeating space, functioning as a medium for electromagnetic waves to propagate through, and which does not exert resistance to the movement of matter; its existence is incompatible with Einstein's theory of relativity; famously found to be undetectable by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment.

   “"The ether. The earth browses upon a circular path in the fields of space, and as it moves the ether is continually pouring through it and providing its vitality."”

4. isim The atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communications take place; cyberspace.

   “H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness He held some friendly chat with Pabodie over the ether, and repeated his praise of the really marvelous drills that had helped him make his discovery.”

5. isim A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura.

   “The luminous æther of his life was not obſcured by any ſhade dark enough to be denominated a defect.”

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

   “But the moſt valuable Qualities of the ÆTHER are it's medicinal ones; it having been found by repeated Experience to be an excellent Remedy in moſt nervous Diſeaſes; particularly in Fits of all ſorts, whether Epileptic, Convulſive, Hyſteric, Hypochondriac, or Paralytic: […]”

7. isim Any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups.

   “An old man to whom a few drops of phosphoric ether had been administered experienced repeated and imperious venereal wants.”

8. isim Starting fluid.
9. fiil To viciously humiliate or insult.

   “The battle rapper ethered his opponent and caused him to slink away in shame.”

10. fiil Alternative form of edder.

    “Ether and Ethers (rhyme to whether)—the operation of running a line of hazle or other flexible wands intertwiningly along the top of a hedge, to keep it more firmly within the hedge-stakes. "Mind you ether it right strong." To "bond" a hedge has the same meaning.”

11. isim Alternative letter-case form of Ether.

    “Gas is not ether–it's a separate virtual currency with its own exchange rate against ether.”

12. özel isim The god-personification of the bright, glowing upper air of heaven. He is the Roman counterpart of Aether.
13. isim A unit of the Ethereum digital currency, ETH.

    “After more than 30 bids, the auction ended at 12:32 p.m. Eastern time, with a winning bid of 350 Ether, or about $560,000.”

14. özel isim The ancient American prophet of Mormon theology who wrote the Book of Ether in the Book of Mormon.