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  1. personification of the sky or upper air breathed by the Olympians; son of Erebus and night or of Chaos and darkness
  2. ether: a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves
  3. Aether is the eighth album by Australian improvised music trio The Necks first released on the Fish of Milk label in 2001 and later on the ReR label internationally. The album features a single hour-long track, titled "Aether", performed by Chris Abrahams, Lloyd Swanton and Tony Buck. ...
  4. According to ancient and medieval science, aether (Greek αἰθήρ aithēr), also spelled æther or ether, is the material that fills the region of the Universe above the terrestrial sphere.
  5. In the late 19th century, luminiferous aether or ether, meaning light-bearing aether, was the term used to describe a medium for the propagation of light. The word aether stems via Latin from the Greek αιθήρ, from a root meaning to kindle, burn, or shine. ...
  6. is a series of science fiction action-adventure video games conceived by designer Makoto Kano and artist Hiroji Kiyotake and primarily produced by Nintendo. ...
  7. Aether (also Æthere, Αἰθήρ), in Greek mythology, is one of the Protogenoi, the first-born elemental gods. He is the personification of the upper sky, space, and heaven, and is the elemental god of the "Bright, Glowing, Upper Air. ...
  8. Aether is a video game designed by Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel and published by Armor Games. Released on September 3, 2008, it can be played for free online or downloaded for offline play. ...
  9. Alternative spelling of ether
  10. Ether (Greek) [from aitho shining, fire] The upper or purer air as opposed to aer, the lower air; the clear sky; the abode of the gods. ...
  11. The medium hypothesized by nineteenth-century physicists for the propagation of light; relative to an observer at rest with respect to the aether, the speed of light was thought to be c = 3 x 10^8 m/sec.
  12. the light, bright form of matter which formed the sky or heavens, according to many Greek thinkers. Lighter and finer than ordinary air, it “naturally” gravitated towards the heavenly regions.
  13. (Gr.) With the Ancients, the Divine luminiferous substance which pervades the whole universe; the "garment" of the Supreme Deity, Zeus, or Jupiter. With the Moderns, Ether, for the meaning of which, in physics and chemistry, see Webster's Dictionary, or some other. ...
  14. the formerly-hypothesized universal medium of light’s propagation. [pp. 163, 169]
  15. One of the five elements in older Western belief systems. Synonymous with the element of spirit found in modern systems.
  16. That mysterious, endless ocean of "stuff" thought to be what was between the celestial bodies.
  17. (CD, Elec3city, 2005)
  18. (also spelled ether) is a concept, historically, used in science (as a medium) and in philosophy (as a substance). The aether was believed to be the substance which filled all of space. Aristotle included it as a fifth element on the principle that nature abhorred a vacuum. ...