A metrical foot of four syllables, either two long syllables followed by two short syllables (greater Ionic) or two short syllables followed by two long syllables (lesser Ionic); also, a verse or meter composed of Ionic feet
Of, containing or relating to an ion or ions Some of the most essential minerals and trace minerals have shown a dependency upon being ionic in order to be absorbed in the intestinal lumen and/ or to be physiologically valid
to contain ions The word "ion" means an atom or molecule that has lost or gained one or more negatively charged particles called electrons The loss of an electron results in an atom or molecule that has a positive ionic charge (cation) Atoms or molecules that gain electrons have a negative ionic charge (anion) Back to salt article
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
The second of the three orders of classical Greek architecture Ionic columns are more slender than those of the Doric order Their dimensions are eight to nine metres high, instead of Doric's four to five Ionic columns have a moulded base beneath them At the top of these shafts, are laterality positioned volutes, beneath rectangular blocks of stone Dentils are placed along the length of the Ionic cornice
a Classical Greek and Latin double foot consisting of two unstressed syllables and two stressed syllables, either ionic a majore / ' ' ~ ~ / or ionic a minore / ~ ~ ' ' /
One of the five classical orders, characterized by capitals with spiral elements called "volutes," a fasciated entablature, continuous frieze, dentils in its cornice, and by its elegant detailing
the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Ionia an order of classical Greek architecture containing or involving or occurring in the form of ions; "ionic charge"; "ionic crystals"; "ionic hydrogen
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