This led to the conception of an imponderable agency capable of certain movements, and to denote this agency the Greek word ether was borrowed. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
And they (ACCU-TIP) do not group as well as the Hornady's in ether rifle. From Wordnik.com. [Super bullets what do you think, Hero or Hogwash] Reference
I learned from Hanahan how to assay for the actions of phospholipases in ether solution. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Rodbell - Autobiography] Reference
The name ether comes from ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithèr) where it means the upper, radiating, air. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Therefore, a stone The name ether comes from ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithèr) where it means the upper, radiating, air. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The pressures and velocities across my chronograph showed no noticeable changes in ether environment, just pure awesome performance. From Wordnik.com. [Video Blog: Shooting Over A Chronograph] Reference
The air seemed to grow purer and purer; the stars shone brighter and brighter; suspended in ether the planets seemed to hang like lamps. From Wordnik.com. [The Brownies and Other Tales] Reference
To this we reply as follows: -- The word ether must here be taken to denote Brahman, on account of characteristic marks of the latter being mentioned. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1] Reference
No. 206, which seems also to show, that vitreous electric ether was given out or produced by the corrosion of metals, and resinous ether from the evaporation of water. From Wordnik.com. [Note XII] Reference
It is thus clear that the ether is the highest Brahman. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference
They exist originally in the purest ether, which is their celestial home. From Wordnik.com. [Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution] Reference
"Your idea of the ether is a more material one than the materialist's own.". From Wordnik.com. [Four-Dimensional Vistas] Reference
Scripture says, 'He who is called ether, (âkâ/s/a) is the revealer of all forms and names. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1] Reference
This all-pervading fluid the physicist terms the ether, and he thinks of it as having no weight. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences] Reference
The ether is the expression of this systematic modification of events throughout space and throughout time. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
A doubt here arises whether the being here called ether be the released individual soul, or the highest Self. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference
So far as we can think, the ether is a manifest, perhaps a primary manifest, of Infinite and Eternal Reality. From Wordnik.com. [Mastery of Self for Wealth Power Success] Reference
The same was said about light traveling in a medium called ether until it was proved otherwise by experimentation. From Wordnik.com. [reddit.com: what's new online!] Reference
It is assumed on all sides that the ether is a continuous, incompressible body, possessing rigidity and elasticity. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences] Reference
Liquids, from the consistence of melted glue, or melted metals, to that of ether, which is the lightest of all liquids. From Wordnik.com. [Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments] Reference
Plaintiffs say Windex contains ethyl glycol n-hexyl ether, which is particularly dangerous to little kids and animals because it's sweet. From Wordnik.com. [Courthouse News Service] Reference
The velocity of the earth relatively to the sun is in one direction, the velocity of light relatively to the ether should be the same in all directions. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
Crass identifications of the vital principle with breath, as one with ether, which is twice emphasized as one of the two immortal things, were provisionally accepted. From Wordnik.com. [The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow] Reference
They are supposed to be transmitted by what the physicist calls ether — a highly elastic and exceedingly thin substance which fills all space and penetrates all matter. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
The question here arises whether that small ether (space) within the lotus of the heart be the material clement called ether, or the individual Self, or the highest Self. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference
I have told you that the ether is a fourth-order substance -- this also is a fourth-order substance, but it is crystalline, whereas the ether is probably fluid and amorphous. From Wordnik.com. [Skylark Three] Reference
Then lads, &c. Behold the lark in ether float. From Wordnik.com. [Letter 35] Reference
Maybe things such as ether, phlogiston, or epicycles?. From Wordnik.com. [Matheson on introns - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Tesla, of course, knew that the "ether" existed and proved it many times over. From Wordnik.com. [The San Francisco Tesla Society Newsletter Volume 1 Number (September 2, 1993)] Reference
Take it easy and rest up and the "ether" will still be here when you get back. From Wordnik.com. [Balls To The Wall] Reference
And just as light travels through an 'ether' in the form of waves, so does thought. From Wordnik.com. ["He Who Shrank" by Henry Hasse, part 2] Reference
If everything was relative and there was no "ether" (inertial frame of reference) then this was a problem. From Wordnik.com. [A Voice from the Middle Ground] Reference
The most famous attempt was an experiment designed in 1887 to detect the 'ether' scientists thought pervaded space. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Lanza, M.D.: Did Einstein Set Science Back 100 Years? We're Not As Insignificant As He Thought] Reference
These last are soluble in various solvents, such as ether-alcohol and nitro-glycerine, in which the hexa-nitrate is insoluble. From Wordnik.com. [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference
They were trying to prove the existence of the "ether" or determine some property of it, but it was producing counter-intuitive results. From Wordnik.com. [What do you know? e really does = MC Hammer squared] Reference
We believe that he uses the term "ether" simply to render himself more intelligible to those who have been wont to make use of it to facilitate their thinking. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
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