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Definitions: Aether |
AetherNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Aether" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references) |
Synonym: AetherSynonym: ether (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In physics and philosophy, aether (also spelt ether) was once believed to be a substance which filled all of space. Aristotle included it as a fifth element on the principle that nature abhorred a vacuum. Aether was also called "Quintessence."
See also luminiferous aether for the late 19th century invocation of this concept by physicists as an attempt to reconcile electromagnetic theory and Newtonian physics.
This meaning of a signal-carrying medium is the origin of the name Ethernet.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Aether."
Crosswords: Aether |
| English words defined with "Aether": Erebus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Aether": Aether Latin ♦ Bolt from the Blue. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Aether" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (ether, heaven, perpetually, sky, space surrounding a deity, upper air). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Aether (1960) | |
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| "Aether" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.86% of the time. "Aether" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.86% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Aether Systems Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
aether | 69 |
aether system | 37 |
osprey aether | 7 |
aether system inc | 6 |
aether blackberry | 5 |
aether location wire | 2 |
75 aether | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Aether"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Greek | αιθήρ (ether, quintessence). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | etere (aerospace, air, breath, diethyl ether, ether, ethyl ether). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | aetheray lokmanruhu (ether), eter (ether). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Joshua Chapter 15, Verse 42 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Lemna kai iqak |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Labana et Aether et Asan |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan; |
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| Language | Joshua Chapter 15, Verse 42 |
| Bulgarian | Ливна, Етер, Асан, |
| Cebuano | Ang Libna, ug ang Eter, ug ang Asan, |
| Chinese | 又 有 立 拿 、 以 帖 、 亞 珊 、 |
| Croatian | Libna, Eter, Ašan; |
| Danish | Libna, Eter, Asjan, |
| Dutch | Libna, en Ether, en Asan, |
| Finnish | Libna, Eter, Aasan, |
| French | Libna, Éther, Aschan, |
| German | Libna, Ether, Asan, |
| Haitian Creole | Te gen tou Libna, Etè, Akan, |
| Hungarian | Libna, Ether és Asán; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Juga sembilan kota berikut ini bersama desa-desa di sekitarnya: Libna, Eter, Asan, Yiftah, Asna, Nezib, Kehila, Akhzib dan Maresa. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dan Libna dan Eter dan Asan, |
| Italian | Libna, Eter, Asan, |
| Korean | 입 다 와, 아 스 나 와, 느 십 과, |
| Maori | Ko Ripina, ko Etere, ko Ahana, |
| Modern Greek | Λιβνα, και Εθερ, και Ασαν, |
| Norwegian | Libna og Eter og Asan |
| Portuguese | Libna, Eter, Asã, |
| Rumanian | Libna, Eter, Awan, |
| Russian | мЙЧОБ, еЖЕТ Й бЫБО, |
| Spanish | También Libna, Eter, Asán, |
| Swedish | Libna, Eter, Asan, |
| Thai | ลิบนาห์ เอเธอร์ อาชัน |
| Ukrainian | Лівна, і Етер, і Ашан, |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Aether": aetheric, aethers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: heater, hereat, reheat. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-r-t" | |
-1 letter: arete, earth, eater, ether, hater, heart, rathe, there, three. | |
-2 letters: eath, haet, hare, hart, hate, hear, heat, here, rate, rath, rete, rhea, tahr, tare, tear, thae, thee, tree. | |
-3 letters: are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, ere, eta, eth, hae, hat, her, het, rah, rat, ree, ret, tae, tar, tea, tee, the. | |
-4 letters: ae, ah, ar, at, eh, er, et, ha, he, re, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-r-t" | |
+1 letter: aethers, breathe, cheater, earthed, earthen, feather, haltere, hearted, hearten, heaters, heather, hectare, hektare, hetaera, leather, preheat, recheat, reheats, reteach, teacher, terefah, theater, theatre, thereat, thermae, weather, whereat, wreathe. | |
+2 letters: adherent, aetheric, aweather, breathed, breather, breathes, catheter, cheaters, detacher, earthier, earthmen, earthpea, earthset, ephorate, erythema, ethereal, fathered, feathers, feathery, gathered, gatherer, haltered, halteres, hastener, headrest, heartens, heartier, hearties, heathers, heathery, heathier, hectares, hektares, heritage, herniate, hetaerae, hetaeras, hetaeric, lathered, latherer, leathern, leathers, leathery, neatherd, overhate, overheat, preheats, recheats, regather, reheated, reheater, rethread, sheather, teachers, theaters, theatres, threaded, threader, threaped, threaper, threated, threaten, tracheae, urethane, urethrae, weathers, whatever, wheatear, wreathed, wreathen, wreathes. | |
+3 letters: adherents, archetype, blathered, blatherer, breathers, breathier, cartwheel, cathedrae, catheters, chaptered, chartered, charterer, chastener, chattered, chatterer, dehydrate, detachers, earthiest, earthlier, earthlike, earthpeas, earthrise, earthsets, enchanter, entrechat, enwreathe, ephorates, erythemas, eutherian, exarchate, exhauster, feathered, gatherers, hammertoe, harvested, harvester, hasteners, headrests, headwater, healthier, heartache, heartbeat, heartened, heartfelt, heartiest, heartless, heartsome, heartsore, hemelytra, hereabout, hereafter, heretical, heritable, heritages, hermitage, herniated, herniates, hesitater, hexameter, hibernate, inbreathe, inearthed, latherers, leathered, megahertz, narthexes, neatherds, overhated, overhates, overheats, preheated, preheater, ratcheted, recharted, recharter, regathers, reheaters, reheating, rehydrate, rematched, rematches, repatched, repatches, reteaches, rethreads, shattered, sheathers, slathered, superheat, teacherly, telegraph, therapies, threaders, threadier, threapers, threatens, tracheate, tracheole, treachery, trehalose, trochleae, unearthed, unwreathe, urethanes, watershed, wealthier, weathered, weatherly, wheatears. | |
+4 letters: adherently, aftershave, altogether, anthracene, antiheroes, antiherpes, aphaeretic, archentera, archetypes, atmosphere, bighearted, blatherers, breathable, breathiest, breathless, broadsheet, cartwheels, catechizer, charioteer, charterers, chartreuse, chasteners, chatterers, dehydrated, dehydrates, dishearten, earthiness, earthliest, earthmover, earthquake, earthrises, earthshine, enchanters, enthralled, entrechats, enwreathed, enwreathes, erythremia, ethereally, eutherians, exarchates, exhausters, exhilarate, exothermal, farfetched, fatherless, fatherlike, fatshedera, featherbed, featherier, feathering, forefather, foregather, freightage, freshwater, geothermal, greenheart, hammertoes, hartebeest, harvesters, harvestmen, hatcheries, hatemonger, headhunter, headmaster, headstream, headwaiter, headwaters, heartaches, heartbeats, heartbreak, heartening, heartiness, heartsease, heatstroke, hemipteran, heptameter, hereabouts, hereafters, hereditary, hermetical, hermitages, hesitaters, heteroatom, heterogamy, hexameters, hibernated, hibernates, honeyeater, hyperacute, hyperalert, inbreathed, inbreathes, ingathered, interphase, leathering, lethargies, letterhead, lighterage, merchanted, metaphrase, outreached, outreaches, overheated, peashooter, pentahedra, perithecia, pinfeather, preachiest, preachment, preethical, preharvest, preheaters, preheating, pretheater, reattached, reattaches, recharters, regathered, rehydrated, rehydrates, reteaching, rethreaded, shearwater, sphalerite, stealthier, stepfather, superheats, sweetheart, tachometer, telegraphs, telegraphy, tetherball, tetrahedra, thearchies, thereabout, thereafter, thermalize, threadbare, threadiest, threadless, threadlike, threatened, threatener, timberhead, tracheated, tracheoles, trehaloses, triathlete, turtlehead, underneath, unfathered, unthreaded, unwreathed, unwreathes, upgathered, washeteria, watersheds, waterwheel, weathering, weatherize, weatherman, weathermen, whatsoever, whereabout, whitebeard. | |
+5 letters: aftershaves, altogethers, antechamber, anthracenes, antiheroine, archenteron, arthrodeses, atherogenic, atmosphered, atmospheres, authoresses, bathysphere, bleacherite, breadthwise, breathiness, broadsheets, cartwheeled, cartwheeler, catachreses, catechizers, catheterize, champerties, chanterelle, chanticleer, charactered, charcuterie, charioteers, chartreuses, coldhearted, diathermies, disheartens, downhearted, earthenware, earthliness, earthmovers, earthquakes, earthshaker, earthshines, enchantress, enteropathy, enwreathing, erythorbate, erythremias, establisher, ethereality, etherealize, eurythermal, exhilarated, exhilarates, exhortative, fatshederas, featherbeds, featheredge, featherhead, featheriest, featherings, featherless, forefathers, foregathers, forgathered, freehearted, freightages, freshwaters, furtherance, gametophore, godfathered, greenhearts, halfhearted, halterbreak, halterbroke, hardhearted, hartebeests, harvestable, harvesttime, hatemongers, headhunters, headmasters, headquarter, headstreams, headwaiters, heartbreaks, heartbroken, hearthstone, heartlessly, heartseases, heartsomely, heatstrokes, hemihydrate, hemipterans, heptameters, heptarchies, hereinafter, heretically, heteroatoms, heteroauxin, heterograft, heterokarya, hexahydrate, homesteader, honeyeaters, houseboater, housefather, housemaster, houseparent, hydrogenate, hymenoptera, hyperactive, hypermarket, inheritable, inheritance, interchange, interphases, ironhearted, kindhearted, kitchenware, leatherback, leatherette, leatherleaf, leatherlike, leatherneck, leatherwood, letterheads, lighterages, lionhearted, merchantmen, metanephric, metanephroi, metanephros, metaphrases, neanderthal, nearsighted, northeaster, openhearted, orchestrate, outpreached, outpreaches, overharvest, overheating, overmatched, overmatches, pamphleteer, paperweight, parentheses, parenthesis, parenthetic, paresthesia, paresthetic, peashooters, pentahedral, pentahedron, pentarchies, perchlorate, perithecial, pinfeathers, preachments, preharvests, purpleheart, rathskeller, reauthorize, rechartered, reestablish, regathering, reinhabited, researchist, rethreading, rheumatizes, shearwaters, slaughtered, slaughterer, softhearted, southeaster, spermatheca, sphalerites, spirochaete, spreadsheet, stakeholder, steatorrhea, stepfathers, stereograph, stretchable, superheated, superheater, sweethearts, tachometers, telegraphed, telegrapher, telegraphic, tetherballs, tetrahedral, tetrahedron, tetrahymena, tetrarchies, theatergoer, theocracies, theorematic, theoretical, therapeuses, therapeusis, therapeutic, thereabouts, therewithal, thermalized, thermalizes, thermotaxes, thesauruses, threadiness, threateners, threatening, thunderhead, timberheads, torchbearer, traineeship, treacheries, treacherous, trencherman, triathletes, truehearted, turtleheads, ultraheated, unchartered, unharvested, unhealthier, unweathered, warmhearted, washeterias, waterwheels, weakhearted, weathercast, weathercock, weatherings, weatherized, weatherizes, weatherworn, whereabouts, wherewithal, whitebeards, whitewasher, whoremaster. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 65 74 68 65 72 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- . - .... . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100101 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A e t h e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0065 0074 0068 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357186747184 |
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