A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura.
The sky, the heavens; the void, nothingness.
Starting fluid.
Diethyl ether (C₄H₁₀O), an organic compound with a sweet odour used in the past as an anaesthetic.
The medium breathed by human beings; the air.
Any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups.
The atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communications take place; cyberspace.
Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: a substance once thought to fill all unoccupied space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy; its existence was disproved by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment and the theory of relativity propounded by Albert Einstein (1879–1955).
To viciously humiliate or insult.
That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.
A component in a material system that is distinguished by chemical composition and/or physical state (solid, liquid or gas) and/or crystal structure. It is delineated from an adjoining phase by an abrupt change in one or more of those conditions.
The arctangent of the quotient formed by dividing the imaginary part of a complex number by the real part.
A distinguishable part of a sequence or cycle occurring over time.
A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form, or the absence, of its enlightened disk. Illustrated in Wikipedia's article Lunar phase.
Any one point or portion in a recurring series of changes, as in the changes of motion of one of the particles constituting a wave or vibration; one portion of a series of such changes, in distinction from a contrasted portion, as the portion on one side of a position of equilibrium, in contrast with that on the opposite side.
In certain organisms, one of two or more colour variations characteristic of the species, but independent of the ordinary seasonal and sexual differences, and often also of age.
A haplotype.
The period of play between consecutive breakdowns.
Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view.
In a polyphase electrical power system, one of the power-carrying conductors, or the alternating current carried by it.
A distortion caused by a difference in the speed of propagation for different frequencies
To determine haplotypes in (data) when genotypes are known.
To begin—if construed with "in"—or to discontinue—if construed with out—(doing) something over a period of time (i.e. in phases).
Antique form of faze.
To pass into or through a solid object.
To use a phaser.