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Ionic or Ionian usually refers to:
- Ionia, an ancient region in western Anatolia
- Ionians, one of the four major tribes constituting the ancient Greeks
And several concepts related to either Ionia or its people:
- Ionic alphabet
- Ionic numeral system
- Ionic Greek, any of several related dialects of ancient Greek
- Ionian League, a confederation of Ionic nations from the 7th century BCE
- Ionian Revolt, one of several revolts by the Greek against the Persian Empire
- Ionic meter, a poetic metre that occurs in ancient Greek and Latin poetry
- Ionic order, one of the orders of classical architecture
- Ionian School (philosophy)
- Ionian Sea
Ionic or Ionian may also refer to:
Arts
- Ionian mode, one of the modes in modal music
- The Ionian Mission (1981), an historical novel by Patrick O'Brian
- Ionic No. 5, a typeface
Science and technology
Astronomy
- Ionian, of or relating to Io, a moon of the planet Jupiter
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
Computing
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
Ships
- 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
Other uses
- Ionian Technologies, a biotechnology company
- United States of the Ionian Islands, a British Protectorate (1815–1864)
See also
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