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Aether

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noun

(1) A medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves

(2) Personification of the sky or upper air breathed by the Olympians; son of Erebus and night or of Chaos and darkness

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Noun

The upper, pure, bright air; ether; the heavens.
The air or sky; light of day.
The upper world, the earth (as opposed to the lower world).
The brightness or ethereal matter surrounding a deity.

Inflection

Note that, in Late Latin, the plural is sometimes written as aethera.

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