Ionic

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The words Ionian and Ionic have several meanings.

From Greece (Ionic/Ionian)

An Ionian is a member of one of the four great divisions of the ancient Greek people.

Ionia is an ancient region in western Anatolia, in which the Ionian settlers established some colonies.

In the ancient Greek language, an Ionic dialect is any of several related dialects.

The Ionian Islands are off the western coast of Greece, in the Ionian Sea.

In architecture, the Ionic order is one of the orders of classical architecture.

In Greek and Latin prosody, an Ionic foot is a foot that consists of two long syllables followed by two short (major or greater ionic) or two short followed by two long (minor or smaller ionic). An Ionic metre is a metre that consists of Ionic feet.

The Ionic numeral system is a certain numeral system with Greek numerals.

In ancient Greek philosophy, the Ionic school was founded by Thales of Miletus in Ionia.

In typography, Ionic type is a typeface distinguished by prominent serifs and a high degree of legibility.

In music, Ionian is the name given by Plato to the mode which is the same as the major scale.

Physics and chemistry (ionic)

An ion is an atom or group of atoms with a net electric charge.

An ionic bond is a chemical bond in which electrostatic attraction links oppositely charged ions in a chemical compound.

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