Ether vs Visible - What's the difference?
ether | visible |
(organic compound, countable) A compound containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups.
(organic compound, uncountable) Diethyl ether (C4H10O), a compound used as an early anaesthetic.
(ancient philosophy, and, alchemy, uncountable) A classical physical element, considered as prevalent in the heavens and inaccessible to humans. In some versions of alchemy, this was the fifth element in addition to air, earth, fire and water.
(archaic, physics, uncountable) A substance (aether ) once thought to fill all space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy (disproved by Einstein in his Theory of Relativity).
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The sky or heavens; the upper air.
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, title= Able to be seen.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.}}
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(wikipedia ether)Alternative forms
* aether * (dated British spelling) * aethyr, ethyr (archaic spellings)Noun
Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
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* (English Citations of "ether")Derived terms
* crown ether * lariat ether * petroleum ether * pyroacetic ether * sulfur ether, sulphur etherVerb
(slang) To viciously insult.HS Coach Gets Ethered By Girlfriend On FB, Resigns Amid Investigation}}
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(English Citations of "ether")Anagrams
* ----visible
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Adjective
(en adjective)William E. Conner
An Acoustic Arms Race, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close