IONIC
\a͡ɪˈɒnɪk], \aɪˈɒnɪk], \aɪ_ˈɒ_n_ɪ_k]\
Definitions of IONIC
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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By Princeton University
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the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Ionia
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(architecture) an order of classical Greek architecture
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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Of or pertaining to an ion; composed of ions.
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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.
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A verse or meter composed or consisting of Ionic feet.
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The Ionic dialect; as, the Homeric Ionic.
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Ionic type.
By Oddity Software
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Of or pertaining to an ion; composed of ions.
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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.
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Pertaining to the 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.
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The dialect; as, the Homeric Ionic.
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type.
By Noah Webster.
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Relating to Ionia in Greece: denoting an order in architecture distinguished by the ram's horn volute of its capital.
By Daniel Lyons
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Pertaining to Ionia, in Greece. Ionic order, that order whose distinguishing feature is the ram's-horn volute of its capital. The Ionic dialect, the dialect of the Greek language, used in Ionia. The Ionic sect, the philosophic school founded by Thales of Miletus, in Ionia, who found in water the principle of things, and from whom, as the first to seek an explanation of things in things themselves, Hegel dates the birth of philosophy.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
