atlas

noun

A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.

A bound collection of tables, illustrations, etc. on any given subject.

(anatomy) The uppermost vertebra of the cervical spine in the neck in humans and some other animals.

One who supports a heavy burden; mainstay.

(chiefly in anatomy, especially of the human body) A detailed visual conspectus of something of great and multi-faceted complexity, with its elements splayed so as to be presented in as discrete a manner as possible whilst retaining a realistic view of the whole.

(differential geometry, topology) A family of coordinate charts that cover a manifold.

(computer graphics) An image or texture containing a number of other images or textures, so as to reduce the cost of loading them separately.

(architecture) A figure of a man used as a column.

(paper) A sheet of paper measuring 26 inches by 34 inches.

(Greek mythology) The son of Iapetus and Clymene, war leader of the Titans ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders; father to the Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis.

A placename:

(astronautics, military, US) An SM-65, an early ICBM, soon developed into a long-lived orbital launch vehicle series.

(astronautics, military, US) A particular model or individual specimen of the Atlas missile and launch vehicle line.

(astronomy) A moon of Saturn.

(astronomy) A crater in the last quadrant of the moon.

(astronomy) A triple star system in the Pleiades open cluster (M45) also known as 27 Tauri.

(countable) A surname.

A subgroup of the Berber languages.

A place in the United States:

An unincorporated community in Pike County, Illinois.

A township in Genesee County, Michigan.

An unincorporated community in Lamar County, Texas.

An unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia.

An unincorporated community in Laketown, Polk County, Wisconsin.

(astronomy, geography) A comet, an interstellar object visiting the Solar System, on a hyperbolic orbit. Named after the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System.

(astronomy) Alternative form of ATLAS [(astronomy, geography) A comet, an interstellar object visiting the Solar System, on a hyperbolic orbit. Named after the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System.]

Ellipsis of Atlas Mountains [A mountain range in northwestern Africa, occupying portions of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.]

(NASA, space science) Initialism of Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (a robotic astronomical survey and early warning system optimized for detecting smaller near-Earth objects)

(historical) A rich satin fabric.

Roots

tlenaiatla- · Greek · to bear, endure, carry

Synonyms for atlas

telamonn gazetteern cartographyn photomap mappern cartographern

Words related to atlas

atlantes mapsn mapmaker titann mappingn homolographicadj uranographyadj selenographyadj cartographicadj uranographer

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