Ionic
- noun
- /aɪˈɒnɪk/
- Specialized
- Stately white Ionic columns support a pergola that offers shade and enhances the beauty of the garden.
- Ionic columns
Examples
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Ionic ratios are very important to determine the relative toxicities that could provide relative biological process rates under specific ionic antagonisms (Wilson et al., 2000; Rahman et al., 2008).
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DPOLY: Ionic, Dipolar, and H-bonding Polymers. Breedveld, Dormidontova, Pochan, Cromer, Prabhu.
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"Polar covalent bonds have an ionic..."
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Ionic.
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The structure has Ionic pilasters flanking what must have once been the main entrance, a loading dock, and the present entrance.
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The exterior is constructed of white Indiana limestone, and the facade has massive Ionic columns (Figure 1).
Academic text (2004) -
BTW, my super-duper ionic system stands idle while I have reverted back to ladders.
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The crystal structure, in turn, is controlled by the nature of the bonding—metallic, covalent, ionic—between atoms in the crystal.
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Prior to 1982, visitors entered the BMA, whose classical facade is also revealed across a large park, by scaling 27 steps, walking through a row of Ionic columns that support a classical pediment, and passing through a set of massive doors.
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The temple of Artemis was surrounded by a double colonnade of Ionic columns that showcased the architectural style of ancient Greece.
Synonyms
An old form of Greek used in coastal western Turkey and later in Athens
Compounds
- Specialized
A treatment that uses a small electric current to push medicine into body tissue
- Specialized
A narrow stream of tiny charged particles used to change material surfaces
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An old form of Greek used in coastal western Turkey and later in Athens
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A cleaning chemical whose molecules do not carry an electric charge in water and that makes little foam
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ionic as a noun names the old Greek dialect that came from Ionia and nearby areas, the way people there spoke and wrote. So when you hear 'Ionic' for a language, it means that specific old form of Greek used by poets and writers from Ionia.