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IONIC
ionic
(adjective) containing or involving or occurring in the form of ions; “ionic charge”; “ionic crystals”; “ionic hydrogen”
Ionic
(adjective) of or relating to Ionia or its inhabitants or its language
Ionic
(adjective) of or pertaining to the Ionic order of classical Greek architecture
Attic, Ionic, Ionic dialect, Classical Greek
(noun) the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
ionic (not comparable)
(chemistry) of, relating to, or containing ions
Etymology
Adjective
Ionic (not comparable)
of or relating to Ionia or the Ionians
(architecture) of an order of classical Greek architecture whose distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes.
(printing, dated) Of or relating to a kind of heavy-faced type.
Proper noun
Ionic
A sub-dialect of the Attic-Ionic dialectal group of Ancient Greek consisting of Old Ionic and New Ionic.
Noun
Ionic (plural Ionics)
(poetry) A four-syllable metrical unit of light-light-heavy-heavy (‿ ‿ — —) that occurs in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry.
Source: Wiktionary
I*on"ic, a. Etym: [L. Ionicus, Gr.
1. Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians.
2. (Arch.)
Definition: 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 dialect (Gr. Gram.), a dialect of the Greek language, used in Ionia. The Homeric poems are written in what is designated old Ionic, as distinguished from new Ionic, or Attic, the dialect of all cultivated Greeks in the period of Athenian prosperity and glory.
– Ionic foot. (Pros.) See Ionic, n., 1.
– Ionic, or Ionian, mode (Mus.), an ancient mode, supposed to correspond with the modern major scale of C.
– Ionic sect, a sect of philosophers founded by Thales of Miletus, in Ionia. Their distinguishing tenet was, that water is the original principle of all things.
– Ionic type, a kind of heavy-faced type (as that of the following line).
Note: This is Nonpareil Ionic.
Ionic a.
Definition: Of or pertaining to an ion; composed of ions.
I*on"ic, n.
1. (Pros.) (a) 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. (b) A verse or meter composed or consisting of Ionic feet.
2. The Ionic dialect; as, the Homeric Ionic.
3. (Print.)
Definition: Ionic type.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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