Definitions

Aberrant; Abeyance; Absolute; Absolvitory; Absurd

Accusative; Actual; Actualisation; Actualiser

Acknowledgement-Recognition of ‘my’ Existence

Ad Hoc; Admiration/ Emulation; Admonition; Aeriform

• actualiser (n.): a person who or thing which actualises (actualise=‘to bring (a plan, ambition, etc) to fruition; make actual or concrete’). ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary).

• actualiser (tr.v.; philosophy): to actualise (=‘to make real; to realise’; see also actuate, actuator; viz.: ‘one who activates’); (n.): actualisation (=‘a making actual or really existent’); (adj.): actualisational (=‘of or relating to actualisation’); (synonym): reactualisation; (antonym): deactualisation. ~ (Word-Sense Online Dictionary). 

aeriform (physics): having the form or nature of air; [e.g.]: “Neither fire nor air nor any of those we have mentioned is in fact simple, but mixed. The simple bodies are like these, but not the same as them: that which is like fire is fiery, not fire; that which is like air is aeriform; and so on in the other cases”. (Aristotle, “On Generation and Corruption”, translator, Christopher J. F. Williams; 1930-1997). ~ (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms).

• aetheric (adj.): a variant spelling of etheric. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

• ether (n.): 3. the regions of space beyond the earth’s atmosphere; the heavens; 4. the element believed in ancient and medieval civilisations to fill all space above the sphere of the moon and to compose the stars and planets; 5. (physics): an all-pervading, infinitely elastic, massless medium formerly postulated as the medium of propagation of electromagnetic waves; (adj.): etheric. [Middle English, ‘upper air’, from Latin aethēr, from Greek aithēr]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).
Greek myth): the upper regions of the atmosphere; clear sky or heaven; 5. a rare word for air; also (for senses 3-5): aether; (adj.): etheric. [C17: from Latin aether, from Greek aithēr, from aithein, ‘to burn’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

• ether (n.): 2. upper regions of space; the clear sky; the heavens; 3. the medium supposed by the ancients to fill the upper regions of space; 4. a substance formerly supposed to occupy all space, accounting for the propagation of electromagnetic radiation through space; (adj.): etheric. [1350-1400; from Latin aethēr, ‘the upper air’, ‘ether’, from Greek aithḗr, akin to aíthein, ‘to glow’, ‘burn’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).

• ether (n.): 3. a hypothetical medium formerly believed to permeate all space and to be the medium through which light and other electromagnetic radiation move; the existence of ether was disproved by the American physicists Albert Michelson and Edward Morley in 1887. ~ (The American Heritage Student Science Dictionary).

• ether (n.): the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies; quintessence. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).

• ether (n.): 3. the regions of space beyond the earth’s atmosphere; the heavens; the element believed in ancient and medieval civilisations to fill all space above the sphere of the moon and to compose the stars and planets; 5. (physics): an all-pervading, infinitely elastic, massless medium formerly postulated as the medium of propagation of electromagnetic waves; (adj.): etheric. ~ (The American Heritage Medical Dictionary).

• ether (in physics and astronomy): ether or aether, in physics and astronomy, a hypothetical medium for transmitting light and heat (radiation), filling all unoccupied space; it is also called luminiferous ether; in Newtonian physics all waves are propagated through a medium, e.g., water waves through water, sound waves through air; when James Clerk Maxwell developed his electromagnetic theory of light, Newtonian physicists postulated ether as the medium which transmitted electromagnetic waves; ether was held to be invisible, without odour, and of such a nature that it did not interfere with the motions of bodies through space; the concept was intended to connect the Newtonian mechanistic wave theory with Maxwell’s field theory; however, all attempts to demonstrate its existence, most notably the Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887, produced negative results and stimulated a vigorous debate among physicists which was not ended until the special theory of relativity, proposed by Albert Einstein in 1905, became accepted; the theory of relativity eliminated the need for a light-transmitting medium, so that today the term ether is used only in a historical context. ~ (The Columbia Electronic Encyclopaedia).

• ether (also luminiferous ether): a hypothetical all-pervasive medium, which, according to past scientific notions, acted as the carrier of light and of electromagnetic interactions in general; originally the ether was thought to be a mechanical medium similar to an elastic body; accordingly, the propagation of light waves was likened to the propagation of sound in an elastic medium, and electric and magnetic field strengths were identified with mechanical tensions of the ether; the hypothesis of a mechanical ether met with serious difficulties; in particular, it was unable to reconcile the transverse nature of light waves, which requires that the ether be an absolutely rigid body, with the lack of resistance of the ether to the motion of heavenly bodies (it is now clear that this hypothesis is inconsistent simply because the forces of elasticity, tension, and the like are themselves electromagnetic in nature); the difficulties of the mechanical interpretation of the ether led in the late nineteenth century to abandonment of attempts to develop mechanical models of the medium; the only remaining unsolved problem was how the ether took part in the motion of bodies; the difficulties and contradictions that arose in this connection were overcome in the special theory of relativity created by Albert Einstein, which did away completely with the ether problem by simply excluding the ether from theory; from the contemporary viewpoint, a physical vacuum has some properties of an ordinary material medium; however, it should not be confused with the ether, from which it is different in principle simply because the electromagnetic field is an independent physical object which does not require a special carrier. ~ (The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition; 1970-1979).

• ether (electromagnetism): the medium postulated to carry electromagnetic waves, similar to the way a gas carries sound waves. ~ (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms).

• ether: 3. the hypothetical medium formerly believed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves; 4. (Greek myth): the upper regions of the atmosphere; clear sky or heaven. ~ (Collins Discovery Encyclopedia).

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