Ion (disambiguation)

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In physics and chemistry, an ion is an atom or molecule with a net electric charge.

Ion or ION may also refer to:

Places

  • Ion, a hamlet near to Lower Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, England
  • Ion District, a technology park in Houston, Texas
  • Ion (Greece), a town of ancient Laconia, Greece
  • Ion, Iowa, an unincorporated community in the United States
  • I'On, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, a neighborhood
  • ION Orchard, a shopping mall in Singapore
  • Ion River, Romania

People

  • Ion (name), both a given name and a surname

Ancient Greece

  • Ion (dialogue), a dialogue by Plato, between Socrates and Ion, a reciter of epic poems
  • Ion (mythology), the son of Xuthus and Creüsa, daughter of Erechtheus
  • Ion (play), a play by Euripides on the relationship between humans and the gods, in which Ion is instead the son of Apollo

Arts and entertainment

  • I.O.N. (manga), a Japanese science fiction manga by Arina Tanemura
  • Ion (DC Comics), a fictional character in the DC Comics universe
  • Ion (Marvel Comics), a super villain in the Marvel Comics universe
  • Fon Master Ion, from the video game Tales of the Abyss
  • Ion Television, an American television network
  • Ion, a fictional religious figure in the SCP Foundation universe based on Yaldabaoth
  • Ion (Talfourd play), an 1836 play by Thomas Talfourd

Computing and technology

  • Ion (window manager), in computing a window manager for the X Window System
  • Nvidia Ion, an Nvidia platform for the Intel Atom CPU
  • Ion, a defunct communication network formerly advertised by Sprint Nextel
  • ION (satellite) (Illinois Observing Nanosatellite), a satellite from the University of Illinois
  • Alesis Ion, an analog-modeling synthesizer keyboard made by Alesis
  • ION Audio, a brand of audio equipment manufacturer Numark Industries
  • Ion (serialization format), a data serialization language developed by Amazon
  • Index to Organism Names (ION), a database of published names in zoology, indexing the content of The Zoological Record
  • Ion, a command line shell for Redox operating system

Transport

  • Peugeot iOn, a rebadged Mitsubishi i-MiEV sold in Europe
  • Saturn Ion, an automobile formerly sold by General Motors
  • Ion rapid transit, a light rail system currently operating in Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  • ION, IATA code for Impfondo Airport, Republic of the Congo
  • U.S. Route 95 in Oregon, designated I.O.N. Highway No. 456

Other uses

See also

  • Aion (disambiguation)
  • Ionic (disambiguation)
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