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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. (atlas) (Greek mythology) a Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders
  2. (atlas) a collection of maps in book form
  3. (atlas) the 1st cervical vertebra
  4. (atlas) 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. (Atlas (1951 automobile)) 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 .
  7. (Atlas (album)) Atlas is an album by the Mexican electro-pop band Kinky. It was released on December 2, 2003 on Nettwerk.
  8. (Atlas (architecture)) 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. ...
  9. (Atlas (automobile)) There were numerous cars, makes and models, named Atlas.
  10. (Atlas (band)) Atlas were a New Zealand rock band which formed in 2005 but split up in late 2008.
  11. (Atlas (Bioshock)) The following is a list of characters who appear in the video games BioShock, its sequel BioShock 2 and the BioShock 2 multiplayer.
  12. (Atlas (comic series)) Atlas is the name of a comic book series by cartoonist Dylan Horrocks. It is published by Drawn & Quarterly.
  13. (Atlas) : 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 ...
  14. (Atlas) A large vertebra in the upper cervical spine.
  15. (Atlas) Topmost vertebra of the neck and supports your head. Misalignment of the atlas can place stress on your neuromusculoskeletal system.
  16. (Atlas) To dream you are looking at an atlas, denotes that you will carefully study interests before making changes or journeys.
  17. (Atlas) A book of maps and geographic tables.
  18. (atlas) The top vertebrae in the spine and the most nerve-rich portion of the spinal cord at this level.
  19. (Atlas) [in Greece mythology] is the titan, who holds the sky on his shoulders in the West of the Earth as a punishment for his participating in titanomahia - the fight of the titans against the Olympic gods.
  20. (atlas) a book of maps, sometimes with a particular perspective (e.g. an historical atlas)
  21. (Atlas) Uppermost and most freely movable bone in the spinal column.
  22. (Atlas) Can be the mythological character or it can refer to the part of the cervical vertebrae (C01) supports the glove of the head, forms the joint of the skull and spine.
  23. (ATLAS) ACL's customer service and documentation software.
  24. (ATLAS) a collection of maps. While most general atlases show the geography of a physical region of the world, some subject-specific atlases use the term “atlas” metaphorically to provide an overview of places related to that subject. ...
  25. (ATLAS) all terrain lifter articulated system