ether vs space

ether

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura. 

  • Any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups. 

  • 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). 

verb
  • To viciously humiliate or insult. 

space

noun
  • Anything analogous to a physical space in which one can interact, such as an online chat room. 

  • A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries. 

  • Physical extent across two or three dimensions (sometimes for or to do something). 

  • A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates. 

  • A field, area, or sphere of activity or endeavour. 

  • A gap; an empty place. 

  • A piece of metal type used to separate words, cast lower than other type so as not to take ink, especially one that is narrower than one en (compare quad). 

  • An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while. 

  • The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom. 

  • Distance between things. 

  • A generalized construct or set whose members have some property in common; typically there will be a geometric metaphor allowing these members to be viewed as "points". Often used with a restricting modifier describing the members (e.g. vector space), or indicating the inventor of the construct (e.g. Hilbert space). 

  • The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere. 

  • A specific (specified) period of time. 

  • A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines. 

  • Physical extent in all directions, seen as an attribute of the universe (now usually considered as a part of space-time), or a mathematical model of this. 

  • A gap in text between words, lines etc., or a digital character used to create such a gap. 

verb
  • To insert or utilise spaces in a written text. 

  • To set some distance apart. 

  • To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit. 

  • To travel into and through outer space. 

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