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sub-ether

sub-ether is the alternative form of subether.

Meaning of subether

Noun

subether (countable and uncountable, plural subethers)

  1. A fictional medium through which faster-than-light signals are able to travel.
    • Her instrument panel was dead, not a single light across the con- sole on. Evidently the bdellium dish wasn't working. Either that, or the subether was still. Though the subether was never still, filled with voices from unimaginable distances.1996, Michael Kandel, Panda Ray, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 134

Forms of sub-ether

pluralsub-ethers

Questions about sub-ether

What is sub-ether the alternative form of?
Sub-ether is the alternative form of subether.

Words near sub-ether in the dictionary

  1. sub-Earths
  2. sub-Eddington
  3. sub-editor
  4. sub-element
  5. sub-elements
  6. sub-ether
  7. sub-etheric
  8. sub-etherics
  9. sub-ethers
  10. sub-excavation
  11. sub-excavations

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