- 1a clear liquid made from alcohol, used in industry as a solvent and, in the past, in medicine to make people unconscious before an operation
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- 2the ether (old use or literary) the upper part of the sky Her words disappeared into the ether.
- 3the ether the air, when it is thought of as the place in which radio or electronic communication takes place
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