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Network Dictionary — Ethereal

January 4, 2009 by Greg Ferro · Leave a Comment 

This Post is Part of a Series — click for list on Network Dictionary»

Ethereal — noun

Pertaining to the hypo­thet­ical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions bey­ond the earth or bey­ond the atmo­sphere; celes­tial; oth­er­worldly; as, eth­er­eal space; eth­er­eal regions.

Consisting of ether; hence, exceed­ingly light or airy; tenu­ous; spir­itlike; char­ac­ter­ized by extreme del­ic­acy, as form, man­ner, thought, etc.

Wiktionary Definition

My per­sonal defin­i­tion is (more or less): an elev­ated or altern­ate spir­itual plane where we can glimpse truth or higher pur­poses. We can also find insights into our own exist­ence, envir­on­ments and the people that sur­round us. This includes our pro­fes­sional landscapes.

Historical

Wireshark, a packet cap­ture and ana­lyzer, used to be named Ethereal.

List of Posts in this series:
  1. Network Dictionary — Freelance
  2. Network Dictionary — Resume Generating Events
  3. Network Dictionary — Scalable
  4. Network Dictionary — magic hand wave
  5. Network Dictionary — NAT’d
  6. Network Dictionary — Pain Relief Technology
  7. Network Dictionary — work­shop
  8. Network Dictionary — Process Humping
  9. Network Dictionary — appsel­la­tion
  10. Network Dictionary — Spinning Rust
  11. Network Dictionary — Server Hugger
  12. Network Dictionary — Facepalm
  13. Network Dictionary — Nortard
  14. Network Dictionary — Ciscotist
  15. Network Dictionary — long­horn
  16. Network Dictionary — IEEEdiot
  17. Network Dictionary — foo
  18. Network Dictionary — Ethereal
  19. Network Dictionary — Signal Slope
  20. Network Dictionary — lever­age
  21. Network Dictionary — Microsoft Standard
  22. Network Dictionary — Brandalize
  23. Network Dictionary — Blamestorming
  24. Network Dictionary — CCIE Pounds
  25. Network Dictionary — borked
  26. Network Dictionary — tech­nobabble
  27. Network Dictionary — Markenauts
  28. Network Dictionary — Implementation
  29. Network Dictionary — Distributed Attention
  30. Network Dictionary — func­tion­al­ity
  31. Network Dictionary — cof­fice
  32. Network Dictionary — Rubber Duck Debugging
  33. Network Dictionary — Unicorn Tears
  34. Network Dictionary —  survivor’s bias
  35. Network Dictionary — IPocalypse
  36. Network Dictionary — slugged
  37. Network Dictionary — Project Manager
  38. Network Dictionary — Sanity Cheque
  39. Network Dictionary — goodth­ing
  40. Network Dictionary: Fun Detector
  41. Network Dictionary: Cock Blocked
  42. Network Dictionary — TACrathon
  43. Network Dictionary — Backhoe Attenuation
  44. Network Dictionary — heater
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