ether: значение и определения

Any of a class of organic compounds in which two hydrocarbon groups are linked by an oxygen atom.

A volatile, highly flammable liquid, C2H5OC2H5, derived from the distillation of ethyl alcohol with sulfuric acid and used as a reagent and solvent. It was formerly used as an anesthetic. Also called diethyl ether, ethyl ether.

The regions of space beyond the earth's atmosphere; the heavens.

The element believed in ancient and medieval civilizations to fill all space above the sphere of the moon and to compose the stars and planets.

Physics An all-pervading, infinitely elastic, massless medium formerly postulated as the medium of propagation of electromagnetic waves.