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say it: ahy-AH-nik
ionic is an adjective and noun meaning "containing or involving or occurring in the form of ions". It carries 4 recorded senses.
containing or involving or occurring in the form of ions
“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
the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ionic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.