Definitions for ion

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ion i·on

Spelling: [ahy-uh n, ahy-on]

IPA: /ˈaɪ ən, ˈaɪ ɒn/

Ion is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 10 anagrams from letters in ion (ino).

Definitions for ion

noun

1. an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
2. one of the electrically charged particles formed in a gas by electric discharge or the like.
3. Classical Mythology. the eponymous ancestor of the Ionians: a son of Apollo and Creusa who is abandoned by his mother but returns to become an attendant in Apollo's temple at Delphi.
4. (italics) a drama on this subject (415? b.c.) by Euripides.

Origin of ion

Greek ión going, neuter present participle of iénai to go; term introduced by Michael Faraday in 1834

Examples for ion

They had headed for that planet confidently and unsuspectingly, using the ion drive.

Now, ion, will the charioteer or the physician be the better judge of the propriety of these lines?

The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion.

ion: Yes, that is the sort of thing which the rhapsode will be sure to know.

A cadre of regime apparatchiks soon seized power, eventually leading to the landslide election of their leader, ion Iliescu.

After graduating in 1973 from the ion Mincu Institute of Architecture in Bucharest, she joined the state design institute.

On and ousia are only ion with an iota broken off; and ouk on is ouk ion.

And you, ion, when the name of Homer is mentioned have plenty to say, and have nothing to say of others.

ion records, also, the most successful expression which he used to move the Athenians.

ion replies that he is a foreigner, and the Athenians and Spartans will not appoint a foreigner to be their general.