Ionic

Examples

• All

• The cultural heritage of the ancient Greeks can be traced back to the Ionic influences in literature and philosophy.

• Here we can be certain of its intention, as was the philosopher's fifth-century Ionic audience, because the saying is independently attested in his fellow Ionian, Herodotus.

  Academic text (1991)

• Famous philosophers such as Thales and Anaximander were known for their Ionic school of thought.

Synonyms

I

Ionian

vsIonic

1 9.3

About the ancient Greek people of Ionia, their dialect, or their culture

is specific to that historical region and its dialect

Compounds

I

ionic charge

• Specialized

1 5.7

The electric charge an atom has after it gains or loses electrons

I

ionic bond

• Specialized

1 3.7

A strong pull between atoms when one atom gives an electron to another

I

Ionic order

• Specialized

1 9.3

A Greek column style with spiral scrolls on top

I

ionic medication

• Specialized

6.5

A treatment that uses a small electric current to push medicine into body tissue

I

ionic beam

• Specialized

9.1

A narrow stream of tiny charged particles used to change material surfaces

I

Ionic dialect

• Specialized

9.9

An old form of Greek used in coastal western Turkey and later in Athens

N

non-ionic detergent

• Specialized

5.7

A cleaning chemical whose molecules do not carry an electric charge in water and that makes little foam

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology