ionic : Idioms & Phrases

• (Mus.), an ancient mode, supposed to correspond with the modern major scale of C.

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• noun a beam of ions moving in the same direction at the same speed
  ion beam.
  

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• noun a chemical bond in which one atom loses an electron to form a positive ion and the other atom gains an electron to form a negative ion
  electrostatic bond; electrovalent bond.
  

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• noun the charge on an ion is equal to a constant charge e multiplied by an integer from 1 to 15
  

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• noun the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia
  Attic; Ionic; Classical Greek.
  

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• (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.

Webster 1913

• . (Pros.) See Ionic, n., 1.

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• noun therapy that uses a local electric current to introduce the ions of a medicine into the tissues
  iontotherapy; EMDA; electromotive drug administration; iontophoresis.
  

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• noun the second Greek order; the capital is decorated with spiral scrolls
  Ionian order.
  

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• a sect of philosophers founded by Thales of Miletus, in Ionia. Their distinguishing tenet was, that water is the original principle of all things.

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• a kind of heavy-faced type (as that of the following line).

Webster 1913

• noun a class of synthetic detergents in which the molecules do not ionize in aqueous solutions
  anionic detergent; anionic.
  

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