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Noun
/ˈatləs/,
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atlases, plural; atlantes, plural;
  1. A book of maps or charts
    • - I looked in the atlas to find a map of Italy
    • - a road atlas
  2. A book of illustrations or diagrams on any subject
    • - Atlas of Surgical Operations
  3. The topmost vertebra of the backbone, articulating with the occipital bone of the skull

  4. A stone carving of a male figure, used as a column to support the entablature of a Greek or Greek-style building

  1. (Greek mythology) a Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders
  2. a collection of maps in book form
  3. the 1st cervical vertebra
  4. a figure of a man used as a supporting column
  5. ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) is one of the six particle detector experiments (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, TOTEM, LHCb, and LHCf) constructed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a new particle accelerator at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland. ...
  6. An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a map of Earth or a region of Earth, but there are atlases of the other planets (and their satellites) in the solar system. Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today many atlases are in multimedia formats. ...
  7. The Atlas was a mini-car made in France in 1951. Originally known as La Coccinelle, it used a single-cylinder engine of a mere 175 cc capacity. The fiberglass body seated two, the maximum speed said to be over .
  8. Atlas is an album by the Mexican electro-pop band Kinky. It was released on December 2, 2003 on Nettwerk.
  9. In the classical European architectural tradition an atlas (also known as a atlant, or atlantid; plural atlantes), Michael Delahunt, , 1996-2008. is a support sculpted in the form of a man, which may take the place of a column, a pier or a pilaster. ...
  10. There were numerous cars, makes and models, named Atlas.
  11. Atlas were a New Zealand rock band which formed in 2005 but split up in late 2008.
  12. The following is a list of characters who appear in the video games BioShock, its sequel BioShock 2 and the BioShock 2 multiplayer.
  13. : son of Iapetus and Clymene, war leader of the Titans ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders; father to Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis; a moon of Saturn; a crater in the first quadrant of the moon; Intercontinental ballistic missile
  14. Combination of maps and charts. An atlas usually includes geographical information, as well as varied non-geographical information (population statistics, sea levels, etc.) about a particular location.
  15. A large vertebra in the upper cervical spine.
  16. 26 Posterior arch and lateral masses developed from a single centre on either side, which appears about 7th week.
  17. Uppermost and most freely movable bone in the spinal column.
  18. (Syriac: ܣܒܠܐ sabala; Latin: Atlas). Supports the eight worlds from below.
  19. Another name for the C-1 vertebra of the neck, which lies just beneath the skull.
  20. A collection of maps. The name is derived from frontispiece of early atlases, including that of Mercator in 1636, showing the god Atlas supporting the world. Maps show spatial distribution. Global maps influence people s image of the world. ...
  21. Atlas is one of the smallest of the 18 moons of Saturn. Atlas is a shepherd satellite for Saturn's A-ring. It has a radius of about 18.5x17.2x13.5 km. Atlas orbits at about 137,670 km from Saturn. Its orbital period is 0.6019 earth days. It was discovered by R. Terrile/Voyager 1 in 1980. ...
  22. Greek atlao = I sustain. Atlas was a mythical god who sustained the globe on his shoulders. The 1st vertebra sustains the skull, and its upper surface bears 2 concavities which suggest Atlas' palms, not shoulders.
  23. Collection of maps between your object model and your database schema. Contains all information the Mapping Tool requires to handle database requests from the application.
  24. An atlas is a collection of maps, usually bound into book form. As well as geographic features and political boundaries, many often feature geopolitical, social, religious and economic statistics. ...
  25. A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS (LHC experiment)