"subether" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1996, Michael Kandel, Panda Ray, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 134:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A fictional medium through which faster-than-light signals are able to travel."
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        "(science fiction) A fictional medium through which faster-than-light signals are able to travel."
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