Ionic or Ionian may refer to:
In ancient Greece:
- Ionians, a people, one of the three great divisions of the ancient Greek people
- Ionia, an ancient region in western Anatolia, in which the Ionian settlers established some colonies.
- Ionian Revolt, a revolt by Greek Ionians against the Persian Empire
- Ionic Greek, any of several related dialects in the ancient Greek language
- Ionic meter, typically based on the metrical unit ˘˘¯¯
- Ionic order, one of the orders of classical architecture
- Ionic numeral system, a certain numeral system with Greek numerals
- Ionian School (philosophy) in ancient Greek philosophy
- Ionic alphabet
In geography and geology:
- Ionian Islands, seven Greek islands which lie on the eastern coast of the Ionian Sea
- Ionian Sea, an arm of the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Southern Italy
- Ionian Stage, a proposed stage of the Pleistocene epoch, named after the Ionian Sea
In chemistry:
- Ion, in physics and chemistry, an atom or group of atoms with a net electric charge
- Ionic bond, a type of chemical bond involving ions
- Ionic compound, a chemical compound in which ions are held together in a lattice structure by ionic bonds
- Ionic crystal, a crystal consisting of ions bound together by their electrostatic attraction
- Ionic equation, a chemical equation in which electrolytes are written as dissociated ions
- Ionic liquid, a liquid that essentially contains only ions
- Ionic polarization, polarization caused by relative displacements between ions in ionic crystals
- Ionic potential, the ratio of electric charge to the radius of an ion
- Ionic radius, a measure of the size of an ion in a crystal lattice
- Ionic solid, a solid held together by ionic bonds
- Ionic strength, a function of the concentration of all ions present in a solution
- Ionic transfer, the transfer of ions from one liquid phase to another
In astronomy:
- Ionian - of or relating to Io, a moon of the planet Jupiter
In arts:
- Ionian mode, one of the modes in modal music
- The Ionian Mission, a 1981 historical novel by Patrick O'Brian
In typography:
- Ionic No. 5, a typeface
In business:
- Ionian Technologies, a biotechnology company
In shipping history
- RMS Ionic, a steamship ocean liner built for the White Star Line (1883)
- SS Ionic, a steamship ocean liner built for the White Star Line (1902)
- SS Ionic Star, a steamship trading vessel built for the Blue Star Line (1917)
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