Ionic or Ionian may refer to:

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Ionic meter The ionic (or Ionic) is a four-syllable metrical unit ''(metron)'' of light-light-heavy-heavy (u u – –) that occurs in ancient Greek and Latin poetry. According to Hephaestion it was known as the ''Ionicos'' because it was used by the Ionians ...

, a poetic metre in ancient Greek and Latin poetry * Ionian mode, a musical mode or a diatonic scale

Places and peoples

* Ionian, of or from

Ionia Ionia () was an ancient region on the western coast of Anatolia, to the south of present-day Izmir. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements. Never a unified state, it was named after the Ionian ...

, an ancient region in western Anatolia * Ionians, one of four major tribes of the ancient Greeks *

Ionian Sea The Ionian Sea ( el, Ιόνιο Πέλαγος, ''Iónio Pélagos'' ; it, Mar Ionio ; al, Deti Jon ) is an elongated bay of the Mediterranean Sea. It is connected to the Adriatic Sea to the north, and is bounded by Southern Italy, including C ...

, part of the Mediterranean Sea * Ionian Islands, a group of islands in Greece

Language

Ionic Greek Ionic Greek ( grc, Ἑλληνικὴ Ἰωνική, Hellēnikē Iōnikē) was a subdialect of the Attic–Ionic or Eastern dialect group of Ancient Greek. History The Ionic dialect appears to have originally spread from the Greek mainland ac ...

, an ancient dialect of the Greek language

Science and technology

* Ionian, of or relating to Io, a moon of the planet Jupiter * Ionian stage, a proposed name for the now-defined

Chibanian The Chibanian, widely known by its previous designation of Middle Pleistocene, is an Age (geology), age in the international geologic timescale or a Stage (stratigraphy), stage in chronostratigraphy, being a division of the Pleistocene Epoch withi ...

stage in stratigraphy. * Ionic, of or relating to an

ion An ion () is an atom or molecule with a net electrical charge. The charge of an electron is considered to be negative by convention and this charge is equal and opposite to the charge of a proton, which is considered to be positive by conven ...

, an atom or molecule with a net electric charge *

Ionic (mobile app framework) Ionic is a complete open-source SDK for hybrid mobile app development created by Max Lynch, Ben Sperry, and Adam Bradley of Drifty Co. in 2013. The original version was released in 2013 and built on top of AngularJS and Apache Cordova. Howev ...

, a software development kit * Ionic bonding, a type chemical bonding *

Ionic compound In chemistry, an ionic compound is a chemical compound composed of ions held together by electrostatic forces termed ionic bonding. The compound is neutral overall, but consists of positively charged ions called cations and negatively charged i ...

, a chemical compound involving ionic bonding

Other uses

* Ionian Technologies, an American biotechnology company * Hull Ionians, an English rugby club *

Ionic order The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian. There are two lesser orders: the Tuscan (a plainer Doric), and the rich variant of Corinthian called the composite or ...

, one of the orders of classical architecture *

Ionic No. 5 The Legibility Group is a series of serif typefaces created by the American Mergenthaler Linotype Company and intended for use in newspapers on Linotype's hot metal typesetting system. They were developed in-house by Linotype's design team, led ...

, a typeface * , the name of two ships of the White Star Line.

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