The sign-value system does not need arithmetic numerals because they are made by repetition ( except for the Ionic system ), and the positional system does not need geometric numerals because they are made by position.

Displaced populations escaped to former colonies of the Mycenaeans in Anatolia and elsewhere, where they came to speak the Ionic dialect.

The mid-16th century Italians, especially Sebastiano Serlio and Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola, who established a canonic version of the orders, thought they detected a " Composite order ", combining the volutes of the Ionic with the foliage of the Corinthian, but in Roman practice volutes were almost always present.

But like the Amphictyonic league in Greece, the Ionic was rather of a sacred than a political character ; every city enjoyed absolute autonomy, and, though common interests often united them for a common political object, they never formed a real confederacy like that of the Achaeans or Boeotians.

Ionic compounds normally dissociate into their constituent ions when they dissolve in water.

This feature of the Ionic order made it more pliant and satisfactory than the Doric to critical eyes in the 4th century BC: angling the volutes on the corner columns, ensured that they " read " equally when seen from either front or side facade.

When the ordinary citizen of Ancient Greece read inscriptions and the educated Greek read literature, what they saw was an all upper case Ionic alphabet: Α, Β, Γ, Δ, etc.

Ionic compounds have high melting and boiling points, and they are hard and very brittle.

Consumer Reports gave the Ionic Breeze and other popular units a " fail " because they have a low Clean Air Delivery Rate ( CADR ).

The main facades of these small casini, like their grander relations on the lower terrace, feature Serliana loggias articulated by Ionic columns, suggesting they might have been designed by Vignola.

They reflect the light hearted elegance of much of Anacreon's genuine works although they were not written in the same Ionic Greek dialect that Anacreon used.

* Doric ἄγ-ο-ντι → ἄγοντσι → Attic / Ionic ἄγουσι " they drive "

53 ), comparing these writers with the old Ionic logographers, says that they paid no attention to ornament, and considered the only merits of a writer to be intelligibility and conciseness.

Carpenter suggests that the real " Troy " is located in neither the Troad nor Aeolis but rather that the memory of a pan-Achaean expedition elsewhere was located at two different points in Asia Minor by later poetic traditions: at Ilion by the Ionic poets, because they found in this area a local folk tradition about a strong citadel sacked near the end of the Bronze Age ( Hisarlik ); and at Teuthrania by the Aeolic poets, to correspond with Aeolic traditions connected with their own occupation of this area.

The first gardens that he laid out between 1724 and 1733 had many formal elements of a Garden à la française, including alleys forming a trident and canals, but they had something new-pictureque recreation of an Ionic temple set in a theater of trees.

The columns are a cross between Doric and Ionic columns, as they consist of features typically seen on each type.

Other examples of his readiness for both warlike and unwarlike subjects are lyrics celebrating his brother's heroic exploits as a Babylonian mercenary and lyrics sung in a rare meter ( Sapphic Ionic in minore ) in the voice of a distressed girl, " Wretched me, who share in all ills!

His Cynaedi, or Ionic poems (), are mentioned by Strabo and Athenaeus.

Ionic bonds are strong ( and thus ionic substances require high temperatures to melt ) but also brittle, since the forces between ions are short-range, and do not easily bridge cracks and fractures.

There are three distinct orders in Ancient Greek architecture: Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian.

The Ionic order came from eastern Greece, where its origins are entwined with the similar but little known Aeolic order.

The Ionic base has two convex moldings called tori which are separated by a scotia.

** Ionic compound, a chemical compound in which ions are held together in a lattice structure by ionic bonds

** Ionic equation, a chemical equation in which electrolytes are written as dissociated ions

Ionic bonds are formed between a cation, which is usually a metal, and an anion, which is usually a nonmetal.

Ionic compounds, if molten or dissolved, can conduct electricity because the ions in these conditions are free to move and carry electrons between the anode and the cathode.

They usually are in an Ionic context and represented a ritual association with the goddesses worshiped within.

* c. 600 BC — Doric order and Ionic order are well developed.

Round-arched mirrors over the chimneypieces and centering the long wall in a shallow recess are disposed in a system of stop-fluted Ionic pilasters.

The Socratic school, with its various branches, is classed with the Ionic ; while the Eleatics and sceptics are treated under the Italic.

The major features of the Ionic order are the volutes of its capital, which have been the subject of much theoretical and practical discourse, based on a brief and obscure passage in Vitruvius.

The Ionic column is always more slender than the Doric: Ionic columns are eight and nine column-diameters tall, and even more in the Antebellum colonnades of late American Greek revival plantation houses.

Ionic columns are most often fluted.

The Centre Refreshment Room 1865 – 77 was designed in a Renaissance style by James Gamble, the walls and even the Ionic columns are covered in decorative and moulded ceramic tile, the ceiling consists of elaborate designs on enamelled metal sheets and matching stained glass windows, the marble fireplace was designed and sculpted by Alfred Stevens and was removed from Dorchester House prior to that building's demolition in 1929.

Ionic hydrides are used as heterogeneous bases and reducing reagents in organic synthesis.

The most famous New Ionic authors are Anacreon, Theognis, Herodotus, Hippocrates, and, in Roman times, Aretaeus, Arrian, and Lucian.

The belly boites, with their papier-mache palm trees or hand-painted Ionic columns, heretofore existed mainly on the patronage of Greek and Turkish families.

Andrea Palladio, an Italian architect of the sixteenth century, modeled his designs on its Doric and Ionic columns.

The earliest examples of life-sized statues of Apollo, may be two figures from the Ionic sanctuary on the island of Delos.

The Greek Revival façade facing Great Russell Street is a characteristic building of Sir Robert Smirke, with 44 columns in the Ionic order high, closely based on those of the temple of Athena Polias at Priene in Asia Minor.

Ionic style columns were used on the second level of the Colosseum.

Commentary on the appropriateness of the orders for temples devoted to particular deities ( Vitruvius I. 2. 5 ) were elaborated by Renaissance theorists, with Doric characterized as bold and manly, Ionic as matronly, and Corinthian as maidenly.

However, thanks to recent discoveries of some inscriptions on Halicarnassus, dated to about that time, we now know that the Ionic dialect was used there even in official documents, so there was no need to assume like the Suda that he must have learned the dialect elsewhere.

* Ionic meter, typically based on the metrical unit ˘˘¯¯

That temple was Doric on the exterior, Ionic on the interior, and incorporated a Corinthian column, the earliest known, at the center rear of the cella.

With the general adoption of the Ionic alphabet, Greek settled on an angle at the top ; the Romans, borrowing from Western alphabets, put the angle at the lower left.

For the North Portico, a variation on the Ionic Order was devised incorporating a swag of roses between the volutes.

A Corinthian capital may be seen as an enriched development of the Ionic capital, though one may have to look closely at a Corinthian capital ( illustration, right ) to see the Ionic volutes (" helices "), at the corners, perhaps reduced in size and importance, scrolling out above the two ranks of stylized acanthus leaves and stalks (" cauliculi " or caulicoles ), eight in all, and to notice that smaller volutes scroll inwards to meet each other on each side.

The temple has seventeen Ionic columns on the long side, and six on the front.

The formal vocabulary of Ancient Greek architecture, in particular the division of architectural style into three defined orders: the Doric Order, the Ionic Order and the Corinthian Order, was to have profound effect on Western architecture of later periods.

Ctesias was the author of treatises on rivers, and on the Persian revenues, of an account of India entitled Indica ( which is of value as recording the beliefs of the Persians about India ), and of a history of Assyria and Persia in 23 books, called Persica, written in opposition to Herodotus in the Ionic dialect, and professedly founded on the Persian royal archives.

* The Ionic frieze on the north side of the Parthenon, is created ( finished in 432 BC ).

Of another Arcesius, an architect, Vitruvius ( vii, introduction ) notes: " Arcesius, on the Corinthian order proportions, and on the Ionic order temple of Aesculapius at Tralles, which it is said that he built with his own hands.

The Ionic columns normally stand on a base which separates the shaft of the column from the stylobate or platform ; The cap is usually enriched with egg-and-dart.