ether

1. 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.

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

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

4. 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.

5. Any of a class of organic compounds characterized by an oxygen atom attached to two carbon atoms.

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