Ionic or Ionian may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Ionic meter The ionic (or Ionic) is a four-syllable Meter (poetry), metrical unit ''(metron)'' of syllable weight, light-light-heavy-heavy (u u – –) that occurs in ancient Greek poetry, ancient Greek and Latin poetry. According to Hephaestion (grammarian) ...

, a poetic metre in ancient Greek and Latin poetry *

Ionian mode The Ionian mode is a Mode (music), musical mode or, in modern usage, a diatonic scale also called the major scale. It is named after the Ionians, Ionian Greeks. It is the name assigned by Heinrich Glarean in 1547 to his new Gregorian mode#Authent ...

, a musical mode or a diatonic scale

Places and peoples

* Ionian, of or from

Ionia Ionia ( ) was an ancient region encompassing the central part of the western coast of Anatolia. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements. Never a unified state, it was named after the Ionians who ...

, an ancient region in western Anatolia *

Ionians The Ionians (; , ''Íōnes'', singular , ''Íōn'') were one of the traditional four major tribes of Ancient Greece, alongside the Dorians, Aeolians, and Achaeans. The Ionian dialect was one of the three major linguistic divisions of the ...

, one of four major tribes of the ancient Greeks *

Ionian Sea The Ionian Sea (, ; or , ; , ) 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 Basilicata, Calabria, Sicily, and the Salento peninsula to the west, ...

, part of the Mediterranean Sea *

Ionian Islands The Ionian Islands (Modern Greek: , ; Ancient Greek, Katharevousa: , ) are a archipelago, group of islands in the Ionian Sea, west of mainland Greece. They are traditionally called the Heptanese ("Seven Islands"; , ''Heptanēsa'' or , ''Heptanē ...

, a group of islands in Greece

Science

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

Chibanian The Chibanian, more widely known as the Middle Pleistocene (its previous informal name), is an Age (geology), age in the international geologic timescale or a Stage (stratigraphy), stage in chronostratigraphy, being a division of the Pleistocen ...

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 convent ...

, an atom or molecule with a net electric charge *

Ionic bonding Ionic bonding is a type of chemical bonding that involves the Coulomb's law, electrostatic attraction between oppositely charged ions, or between two atoms with sharply different electronegativities, and is the primary interaction occurring in io ...

, a type chemical bonding *

Ionic compound In chemistry, a salt or ionic compound is a chemical compound consisting of an assembly of positively charged ions (Cation, cations) and negatively charged ions (Anion, anions), which results in a compound with no net electric charge (electrica ...

, a chemical compound involving ionic bonding

Other uses

Ionic Greek Ionic or Ionian Greek () was a subdialect of the Eastern or Attic–Ionic dialect group of Ancient Greek. The Ionic group traditionally comprises three dialectal varieties that were spoken in Euboea (West Ionic), the northern Cyclades (Centr ...

, an ancient dialect of the Greek language * Ionic (mobile app framework), a software development kit *

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

, one of the orders of classical architecture * Ionian Technologies, an American biotechnology company * Hull Ionians, an English rugby club * Ionic No. 5, a typeface * , the name of two ships of the White Star Line.

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