ether

Nouns

  • (n) the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies quintessence,
  • (n) any of a class of organic compounds that have two hydrocarbon groups linked by an oxygen atom
  • (n) a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves aether,
  • (n) a colorless volatile highly inflammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic diethyl ether, divinyl ether, ethoxyethane, ethyl ether, vinyl ether,

Synonyms

quintessence aether diethyl ether divinyl ether ethoxyethane ethyl ether vinyl ether

Words of close approximity

ethic ethos ethyl
ethereal etherealize etherialise etherify etherise etherize ethernet ethernet cable