Ion (disambiguation)

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

• Ion (chocolate), a Greek chocolate brand
• Ion (paintball marker), made by Smart Parts
• Ion, a taxonomic synonym for the genus of violets, Viola
• Institute of Navigation
• Instituto Oncologico Nacional, Panama City

See also

• Aion (disambiguation)
• Ionic (disambiguation)