Ionic
See also: Ion (disambiguation)
Ionic or Ionian may refer to:
In ancient Greece
Places
- Ionia, an ancient region in western Anatolia, in which the Ionian settlers established some colonies.
People
- Ionians, a people, one of the three great divisions of the ancient Greek people
Other uses
- Ionian School (philosophy) in ancient Greek philosophy
- Ionian Revolt, a revolt by Greek Ionians against the Persian Empire
- Ionian League, 7th century BC confederation
- Ionic alphabet
- Ionic Greek, any of several related dialects in the ancient Greek language
- Ionic meter, typically based on the metrical unit ˘˘¯¯
- Ionic numeral system, a certain numeral system with Greek numerals
- Ionic order, one of the orders of classical architecture
In arts, entertainment, and media
- Ionian mode, one of the modes in modal music
- The Ionian Mission (1981), an historical novel by Patrick O'Brian
In astronomy
- Ionian, of or relating to Io, a moon of the planet Jupiter
In business
- Ionian Technologies, a biotechnology company
In chemistry
- Ion, in physics and chemistry, an atom or group of atoms with a net electric charge
- Ionic bond, a type of chemical bond involving ions
- Ionic compound, a chemical compound in which ions are held together in a lattice structure by ionic bonds
- Ionic crystal, a crystal consisting of ions bound together by their electrostatic attraction
- Ionic equation, a chemical equation in which electrolytes are written as dissociated ions
- Ionic liquid, a liquid that essentially contains only ions
- Ionic polarization, polarization caused by relative displacements between ions in ionic crystals
- Ionic potential, the ratio of electric charge to the radius of an ion
- Ionic radius, a measure of the size of an ion in a crystal lattice
- Ionic strength, a function of the concentration of all ions present in a solution
- Ionic transfer, the transfer of ions from one liquid phase to another
In geography and geology
- Ionian Islands, seven Greek islands which lie on the eastern coast of the Ionian Sea
- Ionian Sea, an arm of the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Southern Italy
- Ionian Stage, a proposed stage of the Pleistocene epoch, named after the Ionian Sea
In administration
- United States of the Ionian Islands, British Protectorate, 1815–1864
In shipping
- RMS Ionic (1883), a steamship ocean liner built for the White Star Line
- SS Ionic (1902), a steamship ocean liner built for the White Star Line
- SS Ionic Star (1917), a steamship trading vessel built for the Blue Star Line
In technology
In typography
- Ionic No. 5, a typeface
See also
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