Definition of ionic Ionic

/ajɑˈnɪk/ - [ayanik] - I•on•ic

We found 16 definitions of ionic from 6 different sources.

What does ionic mean?

Adjective ionic, ioniccer, ioniccest
ionic - containing or involving or occurring in the form of ions; "ionic charge"; "ionic crystals"; "ionic hydrogen"
		nonpolar, nonionic not ionic; "a nonionic substance"
ionic - of or relating to Ionia or its inhabitants or its language
ionic - of or pertaining to the Ionic order of classical Greek architecture

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ionic (a.)
Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians.
ionic (a.)
Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes. See Illust. of Capital.
ionic (a.)
Of or pertaining to an ion; composed of ions.
ionic (n.)
A foot consisting of four syllables: either two long and two short, -- that is, a spondee and a pyrrhic, in which case it is called the greater Ionic; or two short and two long, -- that is, a pyrrhic and a spondee, in which case it is called the smaller Ionic.
ionic (n.)
A verse or meter composed or consisting of Ionic feet.
ionic (n.)
The Ionic dialect; as, the Homeric Ionic.
ionic (n.)
Ionic type.

ionic
Ancient Greek dialect mainly spoken in Ionia, an ancient region in Anatolia.
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Of an order of classical Greek architecture whose distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes.
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The Ionic order is one of the three classical orders of classical architecture.

ionic
ī-on′ik, adj. relating to Ionia in Greece: denoting an order in architecture distinguished by the ram's-horn volute of its capital—also Iō′nian.—vs.t. Ion′icize, I′onize.—ns. I′onism; I′onist.—Ionic dialect, the most important of the three main branches of the ancient Greek language (Ionic, Doric, Æolic), marked by greater softness and smoothness, the effect of its rich vowel system. Homer's Iliad is written in Old, the history of Herodotus in New Ionic: the Attic of Thucydides and Sophocles is its later form; Ionic mode (see Mode); Ionic school, a name given to the representative philosophers of the Ionian Greeks, such as Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Anaxagoras, who debated the question what was the primordial constitutive principle of the cosmical universe

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