Ionic and Ionized

noun

• The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia.
  • synonyms: Attic, Ionic dialect, Classical Greek

adjective

• Containing or involving or occurring in the form of ions.
  • usage: "ionic charge"; "ionic crystals"; "ionic hydrogen"
• Of or pertaining to the Ionic order of classical Greek architecture.
• Of or relating to Ionia or its inhabitants or its language. .

• (a.) Of or pertaining to an ion; composed of ions.
• (n.) A verse or meter composed or consisting of Ionic feet.
• (n.) Ionic type.
• (a.) Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians.
• (n.) 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.
• (a.) 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.
• (n.) The Ionic dialect; as, the Homeric Ionic.

verb

• Become converted into ions.
  • synonyms: ionize, ionise
• Convert into ions.
  • synonyms: ionize, ionise

adjective

• Converted totally or partly into ions.
  • synonyms: ionised